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Automatic Control of Sessions between the client and partners to avoid Wait Sessions

If the client has in netmap configuration session limit defined and the partner has in their netmap configuration session limit different from the client, it will leave the process in wait and sometimes depending on the volume, Connect:Direct will...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Add detailed software version to .swidtag file

Currently the .swidtag contains version in V.R.M format so it is missing the exact Fix Level and iFix version. For example: version 6.1.0.2_iFix012 for Windows in the .swidtag contains version="6.1.0" and not the full 6.1.0.2_iFix012 (or 6.1.0.2.0...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Record API.MAX reports in statistics.

Record API.MAX reports in statistics to support CD tunning.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Adding support for Pipes to Connect:Direct by z/OS

Adding support for Pipes on Connect:Direct for z/OS can help to speed up the overal file transfer process for distributing dat towards distributed platforms.Analogy to functionality already available in C:D for Unix.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Inactive User Accounts Controls - Administrator and user Accounts

Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user accounts after a specified period of inactivity may result in unauthorized access, modification, destruction, and/or disclosure of confidential information
about 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Not under consideration

Support long connection for large volumes of small files

Our competitor, Tongtech, provide a file transfer tool based on MQ to transfer files and support long connection which means if doesn't need to initiate a new session for each repective files which really lead to a high performance for large volum...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Password Security Controls

Password security controls for SEAS administrator interfaces using local authentication are not sufficient. Minimum password length of eight characters can’t be enforced. Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings are mi...
about 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server 1 Not under consideration

Fix a bug which IBM support is not accepting as a bug

Problem: Any CD Windows v6 client or Requestor is impacted. When a lower case process name job is submitted, via the v6 client or requestor, the process name is automatically converted to uppercase and the job is submitted. While the same process ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

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