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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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CDW services should be running as non-system and non-admin user account

Our security assessment team found an issue with 'System' running CDW services by default. Although IBM allows a service account to run CDW services, it requires this account to be a member of local admin group. Either method causes security conce...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Not under consideration

Request Spooler Option print process to include milliseconds in time

Since we've upgraded to the HP Nonstop NS2400 from the S-series, printjobs are hitting the spooler so fast that using the Spooler Optioncreates duplicate filenames at the target server. This causes many jobstransfers to fail due to duplicate names...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 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

Log Aged Processes for Recovery Purposes

When processes exceed the MAX.AGE initialization parameter value and are purged from the queue at the MAX.AGE.TOD setting value, NDM should write out something listing at least the process numbers that were removed in case any of them needed to stay.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Request Connect:Direct to support file path / file name that includes double byte characters.

Request Connect:Direct to support file path / file name that includes double byte characters.Since we need get the file with Simplified Chinese path and name from headquarter frequently.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration

Purging of SolidDB transaction logs

SOLIDDB transactional logs are not getting purged automcatically after the checkpoint interval. We beleive this shoudl be part of the product. This request is to ehnace the product which will take care of purging the Solid DB transaction logs. Reg...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

automated deployment script cdinstall a always uses Secure+

I'm using cdinstall_a script to install/update C:D on UNIX and LINUX I need a command line parameter that disables Secure+ installation resp. checking for Secure+ during upgrade
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 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

Alt Comm outbound Retry feature

When failing to connect to primary host/ip, system uses alt com outbound to try alternate addresses. Should none of them work, system goes in retry state ONLY retrying with last hostIP in alt com outbound. This causes some retries to get stuck as ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Not under consideration

Limit the number of processes by parameter for Sterling C:D HP NonStop

Since Sterling C:D for HP NonStop version 3.6.0 there is no way to limit the total number of concurrent sessions. This used to be the case by means of the License file which was used by version 3.5.0. The only way now is to configure the number of...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration