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Workspace Sterling Connect:Direct
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 9, 2024

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Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing like this.

&PNAME PROCESS SNODE=&SNODE

And this variable PNAME is declared in an IFA rule.

This works very well on UNIX and we are able to tag a unique process for each consumer which helps in quick identification of a process during incidents.

The same does not work on Windows.

As a part of this, we request two things.

  1. Allow a variable for the process name in Windows.

  2. Allow process name variables to pass validation tests in Web Services.

Thank You.

What is your industry? Healthcare
How will this idea be used?

Assigning unique process names to different users of the IFA service helps in quick identification during troubleshooting. Also having a static value for process name for the 100s of processes submitted does not help in segregating the processes and attaching it to the respective users. makes the support part clumsy.
  • Admin
    James Joseph
    Reply
    |     Nov 29, 2024

    Thank you Sandeep for taking the time to provide your ideas to IBM. After internally exploring the RFE and considering the boarder market needs we would like to consider the below,

    The Connect:Direct process language does not support using a symbolic variable for the process name. The example provided in the RFE is not expected to work: &PNAME PROCESS SNODE=CDNODE1

    The designed way to overwrite the process name at submit time is through specifying the NEWNAME parameter on the SUBMIT PROCESS command. For example: SUBMIT FILE=MyProc1.cdp NEWNAME=MYPROC2;

    Currently, this functionality cannot be configured in Integrated File Agent / Connect:Direct Webservices. To implement the requested functionality, both components would require code updates to let the user configure a process name overwrite at rule level.


    please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation. Appreciate your patience.


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  • Admin
    James Joseph
    Reply
    |     Nov 1, 2024

    Thank you for taking the time to share your ideas to IBM. We truly value our relationship with you and appreciate your efforts and willingness to share details about your experience, your recommendations, and ideas. We will soon review the same in the coming weeks and shall get back with a response.

    Thanks,

    James

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 31, 2024

    Please implement this update ASAP. The functionality is available on Linux and should also be available on Windows!

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