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Add an indicator on the Web Console for Connect Direct that would show as to whether it has Secure + or not

Adding a Secure + indicator to the Web console would be beneficial in that it would provide a more complete picture.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security / Usability 0 Future consideration

Improve on C:D z/OS the last STEP COPY with all information after many restarts on the File Transfer incoming traffic

Description: To avoid information inconsistency of the STEP COPY (restart) of the file received and the C:D statistics information as records and VTAM bytes. Proposal is for C:D z/OS Caching all of the STEP COPY (restart) information on incoming F...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide additional granularity for the UPPER.CASE= initialization parameter

Currently, as documented in the C:D for zOS V5.2 Administration Guide, the UPPER.CASE= parameter determines if initialization messages are send to the console in Upper (YES) or Lower/Mixed case (NO). However, this parameter also dictates if inform...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Control Center 6.1.2 Web Console - Active Alerts and Queued Activity in One Screen

Prior to 6.1, the Java console can be used to view both Active Alerts and Queued Activity from one screen. However, in 6.1 and above this is not possible in the Web console. The user would either need to open another window or tab and log in a sec...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1.2 - Add Server Groups as a filterable item in the Active Alerts screen

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Improve on C:D z/OS the caching all of the RACF userid support on the File Transfer incoming traffic

Description: To reduce the allocation time of a file, would be better to implement on the C:D z/OS the caching of all userid that RACF (ACEE) support on the inbound traffic, that is basically to memorize the accesses and minimize the queries to th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1.2: Add Queued Activity (Queued Processes) section for server groups and individual servers

Currently, Queued Activity (Queued Processes) is only available from the Monitor menu on Control Center 6.1.2. This shows all of the queued activity that a user role has access to see. However, the user may only want to see the queued activity for...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

Filter by Server Group in Active Alerts and Queued Activity in Control Center 6.1.2

Our operators monitor active alerts and queued activity by server group. Doing so from the Web console doesn't seem possible currently. The only alternative I saw is for the user to go to Servers in the menu and then to Server Groups, then select ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Manage NDM for z/OS from Windows NDM

Like DB2 explorer, allow NDM for Windows act as a management client, to show and manage NDM for z/OS. Such as copyfile, manage queues, even display/update Netmap.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

C:D Link failure mesage ids - SVTN001I and SVTO022I documentation

There are few of the transfers ended (failed) with connect: direct completion code 10 along with completion link failure message text SVTN001I and SVTO022I. We checked under below path for the allocation errors message id along with max retry limi...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration