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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

Automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM

Hello Team, We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same https://www.ibm.com/sup...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

data anonymization/masking (typetree attribute + test mode)

There are 2 requirements that lead to this idea: 1.) external requirements like GDPR force us to anonymize/pseudonymize data in non-production environments2.) A-B-testing would be much easier if we can mask dynamic attributes (e.g. timestamps) Thi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

ITX - Allow MapTrace to continue after first error

Currently, the MapTrace halts/stops after the first error is encountered. This makes debugging issues and correcting input data difficult, as only one error can be fixed at a time, then the file needs to be re-run to check if there are any other f...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 5 Functionality already exists

Let keystore/truststore fields directly editable in the Admin Web Interfaca

In SEAS 6.0 GUI it was possible to specify keystore/truststore as local to the server in the GUI. In SEAS 6.1 the keystore/trust must be fetched from the users LAPTOP as the browse functionality is local to the browser and input fields are protected.

referenced TypeTree (parts)

You can build one TypeTree or one strucutre and can use it for example as part of choice-group in another TypeTree. Everybody that use TypeTree as a kind of central unit and have to reuse these structures in other interfaces will benefit.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Support Open API 3.0 specifications int he OpenAPI typetree importer

As of now the OpenAPI importer only support swagger 2.0 json format. However, as the OpenApi V3 in json/yaml become more and more common it would be very usefull for ITX to support it.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under 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...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration