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DB Extract agent should be extracting data more frequently

Currently the field 'FrequencyInHours' in the DB Extraction agent configuration defines how frequently the data can be extracted. The min value for FrequencyInHours is 1 hour. This would mean that we can only pick up data that is older than 1 hour...
almost 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 4 Not under consideration

Moving picture password technology

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Replace Notify option with email option

Not really a new idea. I am just passing along details on how one can issue an email or text message from an NDM task using RUN TASK PNODE (PGM=IRXJCL) -
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Being able to get alerted based on log file monitoring

It would help to view data similar to Kibana Based Dashboards and get alerts based on Error Codes & Rate of Error Codes.
almost 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 5 Not under consideration

MQ Monitoring

Ability to view contents of a Queue Number of messages/Queue Depth Oldest Message Ability to clear Bad data/Add for any Smoke test Receive Queue Depth Alerts (via pagerduty). Aging Messages Alerts Idle Time - No transactions in the queue in last o...
almost 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration

Implement old IBM computers in every school in Africa

Micro-Recyc-Coopération is a social economy and international cooperation organization active since 2003 based in Montreal (Quebec-Canada). The mandate of our activity is to computerize educational establishments in the South and to raise public a...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Not under consideration

Managing IV connections

Safestart properties file is used internally by the product to connect to IV. Since it is not exposed to outside world, there is no way to read the values from custom code. If there is a way to read this properties file from the custom code, it wo...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Not under consideration

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 4 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 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to the file adapter to alter cardsetting TargetRule::Target::Transaction

Currently one is dependent on the outputcard setting if a file is created or not. It's not possible to pass a parameter/setting to make sure a file is only CreateOnContent, resulting in zero-byte files if the setting is Create. The same applies to...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 4 Not under consideration