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Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Not under consideration

CyberArk AIM Integration/Connector

As part of security's best practices, it is mandatory that all applications have a connector with CyberArk to retrieve passwords from functional users, so it isn't allowed to storage static passwords in the local servers/Properties files from appl...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Suggest a New Non Billable mailslot

When we onboard a new Trading partner for a VAN Customer, we create a non billable MQslot for a Trading partner using SQSF8xxx or SGIODxxx mailbox, implementers have to search for a new unused mailslot in MB01 by using various combination for the ...
9 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 1 Not under consideration

RabbitMQ integration

At this moment there is no way to connect with RabbitMQ topics or queus in a native way using B2Bi. RabbitMQ has AMQP as default protocol so it would be useful to have this possibility. A second option is to use the JMS 1.1 interface since RabbitM...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

DTXDS APIs for the Launcher

We are currently trying to automate a bit our software lifecycle management and we would like to automate the compilation and deployment of maps on our Linux system. We are using Azure pipeline for this automatization and we would like to have a w...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 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...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

As IBM support feedback from TS011512648. Connect Direct does not have a file locking feature on the NAS level. This should be basic security features when it comes to moving of files. appreciate if this could be added in the future release of Connect Direct.

Basic Security feature comes from the OS level that should be handled also on Connect Direct.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Order hub to include an order/shipment level attribute to filter the orders and shipments to be considered for workspace

Enterprises require to filter out certain orders/shipment where there are fulfillment manatgers resposinsible for a captergory of orders. The Orders and shipments are to have a filter attribiues that should be populated by implementation.
about 2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration