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Sterling Connect:Direct

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HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has limit of 3 IP addresses

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has a limit of only 3 IP addresses. Whereas ConnectDirect on linux or windows systems have larger limit and also altcomm parameter to specify alternate IP addresses. This limits HP NonStop connecting to a unix/wind...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Support Alma 8

support Alma8 for AWS deployments and open source deployments
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Not under consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

CD Windows: CODEPAGE MBCS change mlang.dll for MultiByteToWideChar Win32 API

After a lot of months discussingg with IBM CD lab and Microsoft developement support (see cases TS011672863 and TS014123302), Microsoft accepts that mlang.dll has a problem with copepage conversion in CDWindows with ISO8859-15 and UTF8. Their reco...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Add Description field to API for Windows netmap add

The API in Connect:Direct Web Services does not allow for a 'Description' field when using the API for netmap adds. For Windows, it requires a separate API to accomplish this. The API for UNIX netmap adds has the Description field, so having the f...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Wildcard Copy to and from Cloud Object Stores

With many customers now moving to the cloud, sending receiving multiple files at a time from the object store is a mandatory requirement for many of our customers and without this support, they are preferring using S3 copy / data sync.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling Connect:Direct APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

As IBM support feedback from TS011512648. Connect Direct does not have a file locking feature on the NAS level. This should be basic security features when it comes to moving of files. appreciate if this could be added in the future release of Connect Direct.

Basic Security feature comes from the OS level that should be handled also on Connect Direct.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

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