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Capacity support for carrier services

- Ability to define capacity restrictions at carrier service level along with time slot offerings- Capacity restriction example: 10 orders/lines/units on specified days for "Next Day Delivery" at "Store A" and 15 orders/lines/units on specified da...
over 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Provide "replace/override" capabilities when using the CDConfig Tool for Map.cfg and Usr.cfg import

Currently the Connect:Direct CDConfig tool does NOT support the "replace/override" functionality when importing Netmap or User entries. It currently will update existing Initparms, but for some reason it doesn't update existing Netmap or User entr...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Protect or encrypt or sign all Audit records to protect or capture changes

Audit functions in CD are not consistently recorded in an immutable form so that attempts to alter them are inhibited. Many configurations in UNIX CD are not audited at all because the configurations are in plain text files with no tracking. All c...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to configure multiple IP addresses in a NETMAP config instead of just one.

This is useful as clients can change their servers or flip to DR when there is an issue and we have to update the same netmap config or have a CLP do it. Allowing this would be like MQ where we can have multiple IP's in a connection string. Many C...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 24 Future 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

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

To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

snode.work.path parameter for IBM Connect:Direct for Windows

The "snode.work.path" parameter is available in IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX while it is not in IBM Connect:Direct for Windows. The idea is to have similar functionality in Windows version. It will allow to share SNODE work files among nodes in a l...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Not under consideration

Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration