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Split Shipment report

Split Shipment reason code: Split due to inventory, capacity, nodes, etc.. Allows the optimzer to give a reason for the split that allows the Business to identify other issues. Split due to distance, speed, inventory, capacity, etc..
over 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Sync Supply to have a capability to just report the mismatches and not apply the differences.

We want a capability in SIP to just report / publish an event with the mismatches evaluated during the inventory synchronization flow and not always apply the same. Something similar to the " ApplyDifferences " capability in the GIV world. There a...
almost 2 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder 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 'Echo" test...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Export users details, adapter level permissions, paths configured, folder permissions in one consolidated sheet in IBM SFG

Exporting user details like surname, email, passsword policy, session timeout, last login, adapter level permissions, folder permissions, paths configured for individual users in a one consolidated sheet to be exported from IBM Sterling file gatew...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

CD Unix- CODEPAGE with "iconv -c" or substitution char

When CODEPAGE parameter is used for a transfer, iconv api is used internally by CD to codepage traduction in CDUnix-Linux and CDzOS (CDWindows doesn't use iconv, it's using Microsfot's API mlang.dll). When in the content of the source file there i...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 9 Functionality already exists

Certificate tracking in Secure+

Request that statistics capture serial numbers of SSL certificates exchanged during CD secure+ file transfers between pnode and snode. Serial numbers should be visible in select statistics and CD Requester.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Setting in the optimizer to value 1 node over others

As a user I would like a way to move allocation to one node over another. This can be a feature that we would use when we might want to have one node be used more or less during a given time
almost 4 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Show the Markdown indicator in Optimizer Sourcing Explainer

We are raising this to understand if we have any indicator for Markdown (Actual/Artificial Markdown) in Sourcing explainer due to that Optimizer selected that node. In REI, we are observing sometimes Optimizer giving the selected the node as store...
almost 4 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0

Exporting Filesystem Virtual root path in SFG

The reason why exporting the file system virtual roots in Sterling Fileway is beneficial is that we need to export the filesystem paths that are assigned to specific users whenever a CISO, audit, or security team requests verification or audit che...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration