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Sterling Connect:Direct

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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...
about 6 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...
about 6 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 ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

add HELP icon to the Sterling Connect:Direct applications that will direct the customer directly to the Support Request tool

support vets many customer complaints about the IBM.com website. If we add some direct links into the products the customer uses, like a SUPPORT TICKET link to the SR tool, this defuses customer hostility to the web site.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
18 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
28 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

CD Unix- CODEPAGE with "iconv -c" or substitution char

When CODEPAGE parameter is used for a transfer, iconv api is used internally by CD to codepage traduction in CDUnix-Linux and CDzOS (CDWindows doesn't use iconv, it's using Microsfot's API mlang.dll). When in the content of the source file there i...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Under review

We are upgrading our IBMI servers to V7R5 and need connect:direct compatibilty.

We are currently on V7R4 and have been told that the recommended connect direct patch level is V3.8.0.3 with iFix 7. We need to know the compatible level for V7R5 (when available)
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

Reuqest to have Connect Direct Windows support a Database AG Cluster and multisubnetfailover=true

We have created a Database AG for our Connect Direct Windows instance and would like it to support a failover from one data center to the other so we would like to see support for Connect DIrect Windows connecting to a Database Cluster and multisu...