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Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

We need a MEMO not case sensitive

see attached file
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Purging notification records at run-time

With current Windows Connect:Express versions, when notifications are enabled, notification records are added at run-time in the local database, even when they are fully processed (notifications messages sent), and they remain there, possibly very...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Password less and password based authentication

Problem: We have trading partners using one CDNode that may have aCDProcess using either snodeid=(id,password) or snodeid=(id) or nosnodeID. When a snodeid=(id,password) is sent, we use SEAS goingto a Directory Server. The backend server is B2Bi a...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Future consideration

CX Direct access to tapes

CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS could access directly tapes : read tape to transmit the file or write on tape the file received.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CX SYSTCP Partial generic

In the SYSTCP the TCP/IP address can only be unique or '*'. It can't be générique like 172.016.063.* So we have too much entries.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Express Zos : use of batch process P0B2DIR

Connect:Express Zos : with batch Process P0B2DIR, we want to use the function LIST and EXPORT with only one SPN (or SFN). today, we can use only these functions with PARTNER.NAME = *
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Other 1 Not under consideration

Can we have a report generated every month, which should show how many times the system was down and report the timings?

Can we have a report generated every month, which should show how many times the system was down and report the timings? Say, there was an unwanted outage due to some issue, the report should show the timings and duration of the outage.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Performance 1 Not under consideration

CX Number of transfers requests in a mode

To have a MVS command (MODIFY to the CX address space) to query the number of requests in the CX which are in the mode we would specify in the command ('U' for the running requests for example).
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

CX/ZOS Possibility to swap the logging so it is not increasing indefinitely

In CX/ZOS, the SYSLOG and other ddnames are increasing indefinitely. If they are Sysouts, which is convenient, this can cause Spool problems. It would be great to have the possibility to swap them, as Z/OS offers it for the ddnames JESMSGLG and JE...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration