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Sterling Connect:Express

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Support for Microsoft Windows 2022

My Customer needs to implement Connect:Express in Microsoft Windows 2022. However, we have support for Microsoft Windows 2019 not 2022.
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

support SSL for HTTP notification

Currently the production offer a functionnality to generate http notification about transfert event (file sended, file receipted - start/end). The XML notification is pushed to an URL using the HTTP protocol. The message only push metadata of the ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 1 Planned for future release

Connect:Express Zos : use of batch process P0B2DIR

Connect:Express Zos : with batch Process P0B2DIR, we want to use the function LIST and EXPORT with only one SPN (or SFN). today, we can use only these functions with PARTNER.NAME = *
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Other 1 Not under consideration

CX Number of transfers requests in a mode

To have a MVS command (MODIFY to the CX address space) to query the number of requests in the CX which are in the mode we would specify in the command ('U' for the running requests for example).
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

CX/ZOS Possibility to swap the logging so it is not increasing indefinitely

In CX/ZOS, the SYSLOG and other ddnames are increasing indefinitely. If they are Sysouts, which is convenient, this can cause Spool problems. It would be great to have the possibility to swap them, as Z/OS offers it for the ddnames JESMSGLG and JE...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

CX SYSUE1 Refresh only if it has no errors

Actually, if there is errors in SYSUE1, a refresh is still done. That can hang a lot of requests in TRC=4608L. It would be great if there was a verification of the file before the swicth and that the switch be rejected in that case.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express 1 Not under consideration

Having mode T or O dynamic in APIs through CXTransferSubmit in CX Unix (linux) for Societe Generale

Due to a concentration project at Societe Generale where all transfers are going to be concentrated in a Central Hub (SFG + CX) we faced an issue regarding the mixed of partners defined in mode T and Partners in mode O. In order to not multiply th...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Connect:Express Unix: command line certificates management

Current Connect:Express UNIX versions allow certificates management only via an interactive menu, such as -------------------SSL---------------------------------- OPTION ===> 1 PARAMETRES DE SESSIONS SSL 2 IMPORTATION DE CERTIFICATS 3 PROPRIETE...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Purging notification records at run-time

With current Windows Connect:Express versions, when notifications are enabled, notification records are added at run-time in the local database, even when they are fully processed (notifications messages sent), and they remain there, possibly very...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Connect:Express for Windows: please provide a silent install (non-interactive)

We would like to automate Connect:Express for Windows instances. We could add arguments to the command line or provide a properties file to setup.exe. Upgrades could be done this way too.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration