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Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS

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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

Improve on C:D z/OS the last STEP COPY with all information after many restarts on the File Transfer incoming traffic

Description: To avoid information inconsistency of the STEP COPY (restart) of the file received and the C:D statistics information as records and VTAM bytes. Proposal is for C:D z/OS Caching all of the STEP COPY (restart) information on incoming F...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Improve on C:D z/OS the caching all of the RACF userid support on the File Transfer incoming traffic

Description: To reduce the allocation time of a file, would be better to implement on the C:D z/OS the caching of all userid that RACF (ACEE) support on the inbound traffic, that is basically to memorize the accesses and minimize the queries to th...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct for zOS copying files to SNODE (Linux or Windows ) at the same time using a '*' mask to individual datasets

The client SERPRO would like that was possible in Connect:Direct CDP pull a list of datasets that meet your dataset mask with the '*' (for eg. ABCDEF*.TXT)and based on that list of datasets that match then to start copies each of the datasets one ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

C:D Link failure mesage ids - SVTN001I and SVTO022I documentation

There are few of the transfers ended (failed) with connect: direct completion code 10 along with completion link failure message text SVTN001I and SVTO022I. We checked under below path for the allocation errors message id along with max retry limi...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide message CSPA600W that would be displayed on MVS console or log.

Message CSPA600W is currently only displayed in Connect Direct joblog/started task log and would be beneficial to have available to be automated so corrective action could be taken. Other products display license expiration messages and expiring c...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 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

Enable Transfer of Entire USS Directory via C:D z/OS

Sending Unix files on Z via C:D is tedious at best. I'd like for Connect:Direct to at least be on par with FTP functionality-wise if I'm going to try to convince users that it's in fact the better choice. C:D needs to be able to transfer an entire...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enchance Connect:Direct for OS390 to support PDS to PDSE object-type dataset transfer

Connect:Direct cannot perform PDS to PDSE object-type dataset COPY.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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