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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

tighten up on user mistakes, and educate them

Flush with my last success...ZOSA1679 2/21/2019 Copy File Enhancement- Introduced new field PAG 'SUBMIT MULTI MODE' to allow user for single and multi submit from CF panel ...I have a couple more enhancements that I've just implemented in my site....
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

CD for z/OS: historical stats using Db2 instead of VSAM

The product only works using VSAM to save historical stats while other ISV products like XCOM from Broadcom can use VSAM or Db2 tables. We're preparing next upgrade from CD 6.2 to 6.4 and we must to define a new VSAM, then import previous VSAM inf...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow Override of STOP CD QUIESCE for C:D z/OS

When a Connect:Direct region is shut down with a STOP CD QUIESCE, the region will terminate when all processes stop, making it an ideal choice for a planned shutdown. However, once initiated, this cannot be aborted or converted to a quicker type o...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enhancement for S3 Put service in Sterling Integrator tool

we need to invoke the AWS S3 Put BP from a parent BP. The AWS S3 Put BP always asks for a path of the source file and it doesn't take the file from parent BP like other BPs/Services Hence, we need an enhancement to achieve this without giving a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Address $$UPDATE Deficiencies

We experienced an issue with C:D 6.1 on z/OS where we performed a $$UPDATE function on a netmap entry and the node became unable to accept inbound connections. We were advised by CD support that there is an obscure recommendation in the documentat...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

More than one MQ pool for Sterling B2Bi adaptors

There is a bug in sterling B2Bi websphere mq pool code that means that if you have: multiple qm's (qm A, B, C) connected to the one sterling instance Then one adaptor cannot access one queue manager (e.g. qm A goes down) the whole MQ pool becomes ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration