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Standardize Connect:Direct messages

Currently, Connect:Direct has multiple message qualifiers, making automation difficult. requirement is for the Connect:Direct address-space to use a consolidated standard message prefix
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Debugging option in SI Map Editor

Debugging in sterling Integrator map editor is a bit complex and time-consuming process, it has many limitations and there is no user friendly of displaying error messages. Currently it will support only 26 CERROR statements in the translation. So...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Document conversion service

With increasing demand to handle PDF documents, it would be good to have this feature in SCBN where pdf can be read and converted to other formats. Similar to IBM Document Conversion Services. Is this service already in place in SCBN? Since ITX ca...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Functionality already exists

ConnectDirect to throw message when it gets hung.

If ConnectDirect is hung there is no way to tell if it is, there must be a heartbeat check to confirm if NDM is healthy.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable option the upload additional filed when deploying ITX maps to SPE02.

Enable option the upload additional filed when deploying ITX maps to SPE02. Currently there is no feature to deploy the supporting files such as schema xsd files which is required for ITX maps when we use Xerces imported type tree and for input v...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Improve on C:D z/OS the last STEP COPY with all information after many restarts on the File Transfer incoming traffic

Description: To avoid information inconsistency of the STEP COPY (restart) of the file received and the C:D statistics information as records and VTAM bytes. Proposal is for C:D z/OS Caching all of the STEP COPY (restart) information on incoming F...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide additional granularity for the UPPER.CASE= initialization parameter

Currently, as documented in the C:D for zOS V5.2 Administration Guide, the UPPER.CASE= parameter determines if initialization messages are send to the console in Upper (YES) or Lower/Mixed case (NO). However, this parameter also dictates if inform...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Improve on C:D z/OS the caching all of the RACF userid support on the File Transfer incoming traffic

Description: To reduce the allocation time of a file, would be better to implement on the C:D z/OS the caching of all userid that RACF (ACEE) support on the inbound traffic, that is basically to memorize the accesses and minimize the queries to th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ITX - Document Extraction ( BATCH mode )

As we already have the feature on SI, SI document extraction map uses update commands to update Sender Id, Receiver Id and AcceptorLookupAlias (ALA) from the set of batch flat files. Since JSON file is only supported by ITX map and when we receive...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Config center - Validation of MAP and TXO during deployment

In Config Center when we deploy a map by uploading the map and txo there is a risk of selecting a wrong map and txo which the sytem doesn't validate.In such scenario the input file would process through a wrong TXO and would create issues to custo...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration