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Ability to add conditional logic to entry/exit validation

We want to be able to create proper entry and exit validation. In order for this to happen we need additional conditional capabilities in these validation windows.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / 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...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Alt Comm outbound Retry feature

When failing to connect to primary host/ip, system uses alt com outbound to try alternate addresses. Should none of them work, system goes in retry state ONLY retrying with last hostIP in alt com outbound. This causes some retries to get stuck as ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Not under consideration

Activity Hierarchy

Create a folder structure for rolled out activities. Currently all activities show up in the same page with the most recent rolled out/closed activity. In the document attached, you can see above there are currently over 4500 activities rolled out...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Edit Activity Definition to Already Rolled Out Version

Currently, once an activity is Marked as Final, and rolled out to partners it is not possible to update that activity definition to those rolled out customers. This can be quite troublesome when an activity contains an API error or another error w...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Better Search Options for Directory

We would like to request that the search function for the directory includes all fields, i.e. User ID, Given Name and Surname. So when a letter or string is entered into the search bar all User ID's, Given Names, and Surnames which contain the let...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Showing of names of tasks and dialog when one hovers a mouse cursor

there are some tasks which have tens of dialog. The dialog names are too long to be fully visible on the icon. It is cumbersome to everytime right click+edit to see the dialog name while searching for the dialog to review/modify
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Propagate DSNTYPE values between z/OS systems

Consider cloning the DSNTYPE values for transfers between z/OS systems by the default. Shouldn't be necessary to specify them if the source dataset must be the same as the destination
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists