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My ideas: Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS

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Add capability to hard fail SSL error processes

When an SSL handshake error occurs, the process is placed in HO ER status. This does not trigger the same error alerts as file transfer failures when the process is pushed into HO ER status. If the same alert triggering would occur from session se...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future 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 2 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 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Security Administration Report from SPOE administration

Using the ADMIN function to maintain entries in SPOE is basically performing security administration functions. In some environments auditors/regulators like to see who is performing administration and what changes they are making. Requesting that...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

To authenticate users/applications based on the Certificates rather than using userid and passwords

Currently, Any user trying to access NDM has to logon with userid and password either manually or via batch jobs. In order to avoid clear text passwords, Users can be authenticated based on certificates.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SMS Compressed Dataset Enhancement with NDM

Visa would like to see Connect Direct transmission of SMS compressed datasets improved. Today, when we transmit a compressed dataset, if it is done with out coding the DCB parms in the process it always fails on the remote node with a space abend....
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Terminate the Process Waiting for Dynamic Allocation or Unallocation

CDz runs into temporarily unresponsive periodically 5 to 10 min or even longer due to the reason that SYSZTIOT ENQ exclusively held by CDz itself in which one process can't perform dynamical allocation or un allocation holding all other processes ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

NAS Support

We need NDM to read/write files from NAS connected drives. NAS is becoming a larger portion of our datacenter and will need to send/receive files on NAS. This worked under 5.1 but not for 5.2...I know it was never supported but was handy it worked...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

delete file by C:D API not by RUN TASK&RUN JOB for z/os

Now we delete file by C:D using RUN TASK or RUN JOB,we want to delete file by CD API not system command.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Remove/hide the IP address (other address) from the transmission copy step screen.

Request for enhancement for Batch Operations: The Batch Operations team manages file transfer for latency and errors 24x7/365. Part of this process is sending a screenshot to the client, vendor or internal team to work through getting the failures...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration