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Allow Override of STOP CD QUIESCE for C:D z/OS

When a Connect:Direct region is shut down with a STOP CD QUIESCE, the region will terminate when all processes stop, making it an ideal choice for a planned shutdown. However, once initiated, this cannot be aborted or converted to a quicker type o...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Config Hub - Resource version selection and deployment option and Sync between Config Center and Config Hub

Existing Solution: Using Config Hub Customer/IBM Team can update the Resource but there is no option for revert back to old version and if we revert back through Config Center then new update creating in Config Hub instead of referring the old ver...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Planned for future release

Address $$UPDATE Deficiencies

We experienced an issue with C:D 6.1 on z/OS where we performed a $$UPDATE function on a netmap entry and the node became unable to accept inbound connections. We were advised by CD support that there is an obscure recommendation in the documentat...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable Transfer of Entire USS Directory via C:D z/OS

Sending Unix files on Z via C:D is tedious at best. I'd like for Connect:Direct to at least be on par with FTP functionality-wise if I'm going to try to convince users that it's in fact the better choice. C:D needs to be able to transfer an entire...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 4 Not under consideration

To increase the limit of 16 character names (SNODEs) in the Secure+

Good morning Most of our transactions used in our transmission central services must be secured. So we need to use Secure+. Most of our transactions are using DNS value so the CDZ limit of 16 character defined in the network map is affecting us. M...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Develop generic XSL to convert XML to JSON for new XML validation Service

Develop a XSL to convert XML to Json convertion and deploy in XML validation service. This will help us to remove indivdiual ITX maps for those convertions.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Status "Wait Queue" on SMF record

Add the Wait Queue" statuses (WC, WP, WT, and WX) in the SMF records.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Config Hub - Pop up warning if Customer/Support/Dev Team updating the Codelist values in CTE to PROD for the variant type Codelist

We are using the Codelist Solution for below scenarios and if anyone inserted the wrong data due to confusion or manual error it will effect the lot of transactions failing or due to data missing in output files. Below are the scenarios: We are us...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration