Description
Delivery:Online, classroom or onsite
Duration:3 days (24 hours)
Who it is for:This intermediate course is designed for: Systems administrators Operators Production control personnel Help desk staff Support personnel responsible for Sterling Connect:Direct operations.
Desired
Recommended background:You should have: Awareness of File Transfer protocol (FTP) and Managed File Transfer (MFT) functionality.
Who this course fits
- Teams moving files between companies every night who cannot afford a failure.
- Administrators inheriting a Connect:Direct somebody else built and never documented.
- Anyone with failing transfers who can only retry them by hand.
Course content
- Three days, with a hands-on exercise in every lesson.
- Connect:Direct overview and architecture
- Installing the product
- The Process language
- The Process monitor: the TCQ queue
- Audit trail and statistics
- Command line interface and client utilities
- The Connect:Direct Browser user interface
- The Software Developers Kit (SDK)
- File Agent configuration
- Process data flow
- Performance and tuning
- Diagnostic tools and procedures
- UDT for Connect:Direct
Training with SIXE, IBM Business Partner
- Labs on real nodes: files actually move between systems, and the connection gets broken to see how it recovers.
- Taught directly by IBM Champion instructors from the SIXE team.
- Credly badges available: credly.com/organizations/sixe/badges
- Flexible format — online, classroom or onsite — in closed groups, priced per attendee, in the language of your choice (ES / EN / FR).
Instructors specialised in IBM Sterling
Engineers from the SIXE team who build and maintain managed file transfer in production. Several recognised as IBM Champion.
Frequently asked questions
Which of the three Connect:Direct courses is mine?
By the system your node runs on: 6C02G on UNIX, 6C07G on z/OS, 6C03G on Windows. The product is the same and so is the Process language, but installation, configuration files and interfaces change with the platform.
What if we transfer against another company systems?
That is the normal case: Connect:Direct exists precisely for transfers between organisations. If it also has to face the internet without opening the network, the course for that is 6F99G, on Sterling Secure Proxy.
How is it organised and what does it cost?
It runs as a closed group, priced per attendee. Tell us how many you are and which dates suit you, and we will send a proposal.
Related courses
- 6C02G — Connect:Direct for UNIX (same product, another platform)
- 6C07G — Connect:Direct for z/OS (same product, another platform)
- 6F99G — Sterling Secure Proxy (to expose it outside without opening the network)
