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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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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...
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CX Journal panel field "USDF ->" : upgrade to 48 bytes

With the program P1B2PREQ, we can send a file with a PI99 field with a length of 48 (Statement A48). unfortunately , in the Journal, the field "USDF ->" has a length of 41. We can use PF11 to see the other characters but it is not very practica...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 1 Delivered

Increase the limit of Activity Queue in CX.

The limit if the Activity Queue in CX for z/OS is currently liimited to 1024 transfers.Could you please increase this limit to 4096?
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Performance 1 Delivered

CX Support of EAV File Definition parm EATTR : blank should be possible

In CX/ZOS, for the support of EAV, in the file definition, you had the parameter EATTR. But it's value can only be NON or OPT : no possibility to put a blank value. So we can't select that it's DFSMS which choose the value of EATTR.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

CX management of many files recalls by DMS

If there is a lot of files to be transmitted that are migrated by DMS, all these recalls fall in abend S878. The management of these recalls have to be changed.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Performance 1 Delivered

Submit job when there is no exit in SYSUE1 file

Hello. We have a SYSUE1, which contains 3700 lines. The limit is 4095. We want to sumit a job, with $SUB$, where no condition $IF$ satisfy the test. We have one $IF$ by symblic Name. We can't use generic caracter.So, if we want to submit a job, wh...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

To have the possibility to desactivate the protocols ODETTE and ETEBAC3

To have a parameter in the SYSIN of CX to desactivate the protocols ODETTE and ETEBAC3.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Statistics enhancement

Currently there is no way to interrogate an lu or adjacent node in ndmcom or other utility to see what was the last time the snode was used. To evaluate usage patterns, we would like a RFE to have a useful tool to track last used timestamp at the ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Delivered

Connect Direct defaults to a 002 umask on unix platforms

Files delivered to unix systems are given rw-rw-r-- pemissions as CD is not recognising the system umask of 027 and is defaulting to 002.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Auditing Feature to iSeries C:D

Good Afternoon, i would like to see the auditing feature in your current product Sterling Gentran being added to Sterling Connect Direct.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Delivered

after install new PTF we do not need to recompile any module in PTF maintenance data sets.

hi support， Now in BOC，we store the PTF maintenance data sets in two separate volumes, such as product Volume 1 and product Volume 2, these data sets on the volumes using the Indirect catalog.So thess data sets on volume 1 can in catalog，and...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Delivered

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