Some can say NDM (new name CONNECT:Direct) does not have any performance improvement over FTP, but if you take in consideration certain extended compression features you'll see less bandwidth being utilized. Actually, NDM does not belong to Sterling Software but to Sterling Commerce. http://www.stercomm.com Yes, Sterling Software was bought by CA but Sterling Commerce was bought by SBC Communications about 4 or 5 months ago. NDM can offer other things over FTP such as encryption and checkpoint restart. Also it has integration with some systems management tools and it allows you to automate lots of stuff in your production environment, as well as logging of all file transfer transactions for purposes of auditing, etc. CONNECT:Direct is largely used by financial institutions for file deliveries. http://www.stercomm.com/solutions/products/ebi/connect/pdfs/CDOV.pdf A new product is coming out from Sterling Commerce, named CONNECT:Enterprise which supports also FTP, HTTP and ASYNC traffic on top of NDM stuff. But if you really want to check a NDM x FTP white paper, go to : http://www.stercomm.com/solutions/products/ebi/connect/pdfs/0500FTPwp.pdf -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Laganiere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:50 PM To: 'Peter Simmons'; Steve OBrien; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Has anyone heard of NDM Oh my God. I thought I'd never have to hear about Connect:Direct and Sterling software again. I spent three months working on an absolute pain-in-the-side project with what I hope is an older version of the program (project was 5 or 6 years ago). I ended up using DOS batch files to grab the data from an AS400, parse it, rename the datafiles with Julian dates and port it back and forth to a mainframe at another telco. What an absolute bit of nonsense. Just to give you an idea of how complicated it was, I had to flow-chart the batch files before I could hand the support over to the operations group. Let me know if you want my stuff from that period, I usually keep everything and could find it for you... Good luck... - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Peter Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:44 PM To: Steve OBrien; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Has anyone heard of NDM Steve, This sounds like Sterling Software's Network Data Mover (NDM), later known as Connect:Direct. Sterling have been bought out by CA, so try looking at www.ca.com for more info. CA have a product called CA:XCOM which does much the same sort of thing, it could have been dropped in favour of this, you'll need to dig around to find out what happened to it after the merger. It is a file transfer package, with a scheduler and scripting tool, originally used in a mainframe (SNA) environment, later enhaced for TCP/IP trnasfers. It has NO benefit over FTP in terms of performance, but the bonus is the script/schedule toollkit, which can be integrated into an MVS, UNIX or NT environment (AFAIR), and includes hooks into things like OPCA, JES, RJE etc. I haven't seen it for a few years, but I recall it was reasonably OK, it had a client that ran on OS/2 for SNA MF-PC transfers, and was a sod to get running properly, but once it was running it ran forever. I saw the TCP/IP version a few years ago, and thought it was OK, but I wasn't too interested in the product at the time. Hope this helps! Regards Pete S. /DISCLAIMER All the ususal legal rubbish means that if If your house burns down after reading this, it's NOT my fault, OK! /DISCLAIMER OFF -----Original Message----- From: Steve OBrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 02 August 2000 19:08 Subject: Has anyone heard of NDM >I just was asked by my boss why we are not using NDM insted of FTP. I havent a >clue what he is talking about. I could just say what is NDM. > > >Thanks in advance. > > >Steve O'Brien > >___________________________________ >UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html >FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com >Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
