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Support long connection for large volumes of small files

Our competitor, Tongtech, provide a file transfer tool based on MQ to transfer files and support long connection which means if doesn't need to initiate a new session for each repective files which really lead to a high performance for large volum...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Add Audit Log Capabilities to File Agent

For Stand alone and Integrated File Agent, some kind of auditing feature needs to be added. Currently messages are created showing that the configuration has been updated, but what in the configuration was updated? This is what shops need to know.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 4 Future consideration

Fix a bug which IBM support is not accepting as a bug

Problem: Any CD Windows v6 client or Requestor is impacted. When a lower case process name job is submitted, via the v6 client or requestor, the process name is automatically converted to uppercase and the job is submitted. While the same process ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

DFDL support in ITX

The use of DFDL for data format definition is getting popular especially in IBM products. Please add DFDL into ITX as a standard
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 0 Not under consideration

Reporting available for Secure+ data within Connect Direct 4.1x and 4.2x

I am being tasked with providing numbers on a monthly basis on how many remote nodes I have configured for Secure+ on each of my supported servers. I need to be able to detect in the nodes subdirectory which of the nodes are set up for Secure+ by ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Adding the files size to windows evernt logs

There is a lot of helpful information being sent to the windows event log about send and receiving files. The only this missing is the file size from the events.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Introducing new Resource Type for SFG Routing Channel Template

The Rest API has been introduced in SFG / B2Bi for Routing Channels Templates. It would be really good if a resource type is introduced like codelist in PEM. This helps in reducing the time of Partner Onboarding and will have all the information (...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release

Include API monitoring/output in CD Logs

API connects to the CD product can be for File Transfer submissions or stat gathering for another use such as log checks. These API have a max value configurable on the local node entry in CD netmap file but currently there is no logging of API ac...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Increase the maximun runnable C:D session from 99 to *NOMAX or a higher limit

Currently, the maximum active C:D session is 99, when the session limit is reached, and new C:D job is initiated , it will abend with CDE0200 and the C:D job have to be retried again.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Simple "Survey" capability in PEM as an add on

Now that we have the partner details, if we have an option to create a unique URL for each of the TPs and TPs simply have to click and submit details, it will be useful if we need surveys to be filled by the TPs.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release