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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Configurable clean environment for run tasks

Following the change introduced in v4.1.0.3 of C:D for UNIX (apar IC86881) whereby environment variables are sanitized, IBM should provide a better mechanism for setting environment variables for Run Task and Run Job steps in a secure manner. Alth...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 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

SMTP connections

We require that the SMTP connection used for notification, to be retried in the event the SMTP server is down. This could be retried x times prior to giving up. Also would it be possible to specify a secondary SMTP server in the event the primary ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

"%Complete" field failure with file great then 4,3GB

Command WRKCDPROC- function Display C:D Process with file greather then 4,3 GB, field "%Complete" showing wrong value greather then 100%. Printscreen of this state is attached. PMR ID: 15921,668,668
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Future 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

copy folder's files and sub-folders by C:D for windows

FTP provides a generic feature of copy specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders. For Example,we have the the path /path1/path2 and files 1a,1b in /path1;2a,2b in path2.if we copy /path1 by FTP then we copy all these four fils. But C:...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to C:D for windows client

FTP provides a generic feature of listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to FTP client. But C:D can only realize this function by RUN TASK or RUN JOB invoking many shell scripts, which make clients' application complex. BOC...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to C:D for UNIX client

FTP provides a generic feature of listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to FTP client. But C:D can only realize this function by RUN TASK or RUN JOB invoking many shell scripts, which make clients' application complex. BOC...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add an Admin ID for CD UNIX Installations

Currently CD UNIX can be installed under another ID. However, during a particular step of the installation process, the root password is required. Can an administrative ID be added to the CD UNIX installation that has the appropriate access needed...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 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 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Not under consideration