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Support Load balancing for IBM DB2 service.

We are having b2bi(Sterling Integrator) installed in VM and Database we have for B2Bi is IBM DB2 and there are 3 IPs assigned to the DB and being load balanced with Round robin. This scenario seems not supported. Having support for this feature wi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Needs more information

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

Support for Windows Server 2022

Hello, Since Microsoft is sunsetting Windows Server 2012, we are needing to upgrade our current servers. We would like to move to Server 2022 but it doesn't seem to be supported yet. Would you be able to tell me if you are currently working on cer...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to set EventThreshold at Node and DeliveryMethod level

Why is it useful? It provides ability to just publish only SHP or PICK Inventory Events (either Node or Dg level). Because in many of the IV implementations, where there is no separate Availability for SHP and PICK. In such cases, currently, the r...
12 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

SFO to consider the ad hoc/unplanned node delays during optimization

The ad hoc delays need to be captured in SFO as separate parameter in order to account, longer processing time to ship the orders from the nodes during and post a sale event or, shortage in the manpower leading to delays. The ad-hoc delays need to...
almost 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Allow different Node Balancing Cost (NBC) parameters by Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The SLA configuration we have loaded has values of Standard, 1Day, and 2Day. Is it possible to have different node balancing configuration values (Tiebreaker cost, Backlog Threshold, Overcapacity Penalty) for each node that vary by SLA? For exampl...
about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

The max carrier service capacity should be considered by SIP Optimizer when selecting a carrier service

During holidays, ULTA have carrier services that impose caps on the number of packages. For example, they only want to ship 1000 packages using Fedex Ground for that day. Any more packages cannot be shipped by Fedex Ground on that day. So SIP Opti...
about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

include attachment with error info in email indicating ingestion failure

Creating this cause as directed in case TS017610463 Configuration file data is loaded into SIP-Optimizer via the file transfer adapter https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/intelligent-promising?topic=id-downloading-installing-configuring-sterling-intellige...
about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

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