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Customized Alerting Blackout Periods

We need the ability to set custom times for each node where if the node goes down it doesn't alert. We are looking to use Control Center to monitor multiple Connect:Directs throughout the company and a majority of the CD nodes have different maint...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Control Center 6.1 Move server.xml file settings to database

Currently in version 6.1 a timeout value can be added to the server.xml file which is located in the installation directory under web\wlp\usr\servers\defaultServer. The IBM documentation says to add a parameter invalidationTimeout= and put the val...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Provide SUBMIT ESF=YES feature for CONNECT:Direct-Unix

On C:D-z/OS, an Extended Submit Facility (ESF) option (syntax is ESF=YES) exists for the SUBMIT command to allow C:D transmission requests to be queued up even when C:D is down on the z/OS system; the requests are executed later when C:D has come ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 0 Future consideration

Enhance AS2 logging to include TLS information

Currently, Sterling Integrator logs if the connection is using TLS. However, it is lacking the TLS family such as TLS 1.0, TLS1.2, etc.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

SMART OPS MONITOR - Strengthen ops side of Product - Product which caters Devops needs

The world is trying to move to devops slowly. Today , If we take OMS side, who ever implements the product to a customer, they sell them by showing the ready to deploy code , development accelerators which helps customer to go to market faster wit...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to disable item and node combination for specific DGs

We need an ability to disable item and node combination for some specific DGs in IV whereas for other DGs this Item and Node Combination should be enabled. Currently IV does not seem to support this feature.
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate CDT differences between two CDT Full export and apply the differences to a target environment

Configuration differences to largely automate migration of differential configuration from a lower work stream to a higher work stream without re-typing. Configuration differences to automate removal of configuration from a higher work stream if i...
over 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

BPN Tool - improve Audit Log search to show more relevant results

We use BPN TOOL - Audit Log to identify what routing rules have been added, changed deleted. I found that when I searched for rule name containing "SGM" that had one of the assignments updated recently, it did not show me the updated rule. I had t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Mail MIME Service Attachment with Asian characters

Currently when using the Mail Mime Service with FSA to extract attachments, it seems FSA uses the "name" inside "ContentType*" as FileName. Unfortunately for "ContentTypes", Mail Mime Service doesn't seems to be able to read the "name" correctly w...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Processes which are NOT OK should remain in TCQ

In most situations, where a process ends not OK, it is moved from TCQ to statistics, i. e. LSMG244I. Finding the original //SYSIN of the batchjob for repeating is difficult and time consuming. There should be a mechanism (exit, initparm, ...) to i...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Future consideration