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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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Enhanced messaging for various message states within job log to allow automation

Today - the only way to verify message processing is to log into Connect:Direct and check the current status. We would like it when messages go into the various states (specifically a wait state) for a message to put but out to the started task jo...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Remove/hide the IP address (other address) from the transmission copy step screen.

Request for enhancement for Batch Operations: The Batch Operations team manages file transfer for latency and errors 24x7/365. Part of this process is sending a screenshot to the client, vendor or internal team to work through getting the failures...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add capability to hard fail SSL error processes

When an SSL handshake error occurs, the process is placed in HO ER status. This does not trigger the same error alerts as file transfer failures when the process is pushed into HO ER status. If the same alert triggering would occur from session se...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

Enchance Connect:Direct for OS390 to support PDS to PDSE object-type dataset transfer

Connect:Direct cannot perform PDS to PDSE object-type dataset COPY.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide ability to have transit/delivery days configurable by order type & carrier service

Historically Saturday and Sunday have not been considered business days for carriers to transit and/or deliver packages. Based on the SLA the due in home date has been calculated accordingly, and the appropriate carrier service options are conside...
about 4 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Enable Log Rollover based on Size and not Number of lines

I enabled Translation Logs setting the Log Level to ON with Rolling Over every 100000 lines. It started creating the logs of size as big as 52 GB which is really huge in size and doesn't make any sense as it can't be read. Please provide the Log R...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Show shipment destination on the Optimizer Results Explainer Dashboard map

Currently the map shown in the Results Explainer Order Summary screen shows a Star icon for the node(s) selected to ship and a Dot icon for nodes considered. If you click on the icon the name/number of the node appears in a popup box. It would be ...
over 4 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Code List Metrics - How often used, and when last used

We currently use multiple code lists in our environment. Over the years, these code lists have grown exponentially. Unfortunately, we have no way of easily knowing how often a row within a code list is used, or when the last time that row was used...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Secure Plus Error Message Enhancement

Is there any way to capture the SNODE name for which the SSL Handshake failure occurring with the error message CAPA202E, since the affected SNODE name is not present in the same line? We are able to find SVTM055I message in the next line but it's...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release