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Allow optional ODBC connection strings to allow DB connection encryption

My Database team would like to have all connections to the database encrypted, preferably at the application level, using the below: encrypt=true;TrustServerCertificate=false; It is currently not possible to supply this information using the DB Wi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Secure Plus Error Message Enhancement

Is there any way to capture the SNODE name for which the SSL Handshake failure occurring with the error message CAPA202E, since the affected SNODE name is not present in the same line? We are able to find SVTM055I message in the next line but it's...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Sterling Connect:Direct on RHOS on IBM Power

Support for Sterling Connect:Direct on RHOS on IBM Power is essential for technology modernization initiatives to support flexible deployment methodologies and technology strategies. This would benefit customers running Sterling Connect:Direct on ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Support NFS for work files in Connect Direct for load balancer setup

Support NFS for work files in Connect:Direct. Without the support of NFS for work files, Connect: Direct cannot be load balanced for restarts appropriately.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Please Test and Certify SQL Server AlwaysOn for Connect Direct

Please test and certify Connect Direct support for SQL server AlwaysOn. Our infrastructure team is pushing us to move our Windows install of C:D to SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups. Our lab advocate asked for this RFE as IBM has not t...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

HA solution for Connect:Direct using replication

Since Cloud VMs are widely used these days, has IBM considered to certify HA solution for Connect:Direct on Cloud VMs without requiring OS-level clustering software such as Windows Clustering or Veritas Cluster Software (VCS) for Linux? Those OS-l...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Propagate DSNTYPE values between z/OS systems

Consider cloning the DSNTYPE values for transfers between z/OS systems by the default. Shouldn't be necessary to specify them if the source dataset must be the same as the destination
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

High availability for Connect Direct Manager running in a sysplex.

Hi,We are looking for a high availability solution for Connect Direct Manager. We currently have one CD manager running in a sysplex and are at risk of this task going down and not restarting as there is no fallback for this component. We would li...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists