Hi Ive,

gRPC has not been made available publically (*) as an explicit selectable connection method, for 2 reasons:

• Changing the default connection setting to 'gRPC' in a 10.3+ Cube would break older Cube versions as they do not know this option. You would have to remember to switch it back to auto/remoting every time you want to connect to an older (e.g. 10.1) cluster.
• For simplicity sake we prefer to have as few as possible necessary manual configuration settings. Remoting had the need for manual settings as it technically only required port 8004 to be accessible. gRPC relies on port 443 to be accessible so we are guaranteed to also be able to access the /ConnectionSettings.txt endpoint which is what autodetection uses. As gRPC will become the default in the near future, Remoting will only serve the purpose of a fallback mechanism for older systems where autodetection doesn't work.

(*) it is available within Skyline HQ for debugging and testing purposes, which is why you see it in your second screenshot.