Automation and Management
- Supports 24x7 unattended operations
- Schedules jobs on a one-time, recurring, or continuous basis
- Assigns and manages file transfer workload
- Event driven alert notification
- Process language builds scripts to provide integration with back-end systems
- API and SDK for programmatic access by other applications
IBM® Sterling File Accelerator (128KB)
- Overcomes latency issues in TCP/IP protocol
- Increases transfer speed for large files over high speed networks by up to four times
- Built-in congestion control: Shares bandwidth with other business applications
Assured File Delivery
- Supports checkpoint restart
- Automatic recovery from network interruptions
- Automated alert notifications for success/failure
Security and Compliance
- Interfaces with operating system security for user authentication
- Provides a complete audit trail of data movement through extensive statistics logs
IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct® Secure Plus (125KB)
- User authentication
- X.509 certificates for authentication
- Data encryption (SSL/TLS)
- Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) checking
- FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria certification
IBM® Sterling Connect:Direct® FTP+ (471KB)
- Adds Sterling Connect:Direct capabilities to existing FTP to provide assured delivery- automatic retry, compression, checkpoint/restart
- Authentication and data encryption with Sterling Connect:Direct Secure Plus, & utilizes the Sterling Connect:Direct protocol to improve security for existing FTP
- Audit and logging capabilities
- Server visibility through IBM Sterling Control Center
Multiple Platform Support
- Operating Systems Support
- z/OS
- OpenVMS
- i5/OS (OS/400)
- UNIX and Linux Network Protocols Support
- TCP/IP
- SNA
- UDT (UNIX 4.0, z/OS 4.8, Windows 4.5)
- Windows
- HP NonStop
