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Need to include ReferenceNumber and ProcessID to InFlight API filters

Please add ReferenceNumber and ProcessID to the list of InFlight API filters Currently the REST query parameters are limited to the following: direction (INBOUND, OUTBOUND) status (SUCCESS, FAILURE) state (IN_PROGRESS, COMPLETE, INCOMPLETE) doc_ty...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Keep Netmap CREATED, UPDATED, USED AS xNODE fields

There are inconsistencies with the logic of the NETMAP entry fields, CREATED, UPDATED, and USED AS xNODEs, as they can lose true history of the netmap entries. CREATED Date/Time stamp is lost on the netmap unload and load process and if $$REPLACE ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Connect:Direct RESTAPI at the CD nodes (including Z) support

We would like be able to use RESTAPI services to access Connect:Direct at the z/OS node level (not via CDWS) in order to handle job abends with NDM status
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 8 Functionality already exists

TP Names Import/Export inbuilt option in Inflight

During testing phase in inflight CTE, we keep on adding TP names and when we go live we need to update the same to production (may be with different names sometimes). We have RPA Bot to add TP names to inflight, but if we have an inbuilt function ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0

Include ForgeRock Directory LDAP service to IBM officially supported list

We're using ForgeRock Directory service in LDAP and enabled HTTP password policy. But got an issue that the warming message will be changing randomly with multiple login attempted. case has been raised to IBM but they noticed that ForgeRock Direct...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 4 Not under consideration

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

For Type records panel to add confirmation prompt to confirm saving or record should not get added with PF3

Currently, there is delimitation while we go to admin panel for adding new type record in NDM admin-> IT panel , if we bychance hit PF3 it creates an incomplete record. And to remediate this everytime either we have to update the wrongly create...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Future consideration

Call HSM for synchronous backups from Connect Direct

We would like to include in our Connect Direct process a call to HSM to make synchronous backup of important production dataset received or sended to be able to make a fast recover in case of corruption or data lost. We have tried to make calls to...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Future consideration

Make the 'SourceReferenceNumber' available through the InFlight APIs

The 'SourceReferenceNumber' is a key field used for audit and reconciliation purposes. It is essential that this value be made available through the InFlight APIs.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 3 Planned for future release