This is a Linked Rule that says if the SI Server Adapter goes down “DO NOT” Notify me unless the Adapter is down for more than 5 minutes. But if the Adapter is down for longer than 5 minutes send an Alert. From the Console Go to Man a ge> R ule s /Ac t ion s and select Rules Select the Plus + button to create Name the Rule - I used NODE Down Enable the Rule Select NEXT Select MSGID as the KEY Select EQUALS as the Operator Select Value CGIS011I Select NEXT Do Not use a Schedule. Select NEXT Select No Operation for the... [More]

This is a Linked Rule that says if the SI NODE goes down “DO NOT” Notify me unless the NODE is down for more than 5 minutes. But if the NODE is down for longer than 5 minutes send an Alert. From the Console Go to Mana ge>R ules /Act ions and select Rules Select the Plus + button to create Name the Rule - I used NODE Down Enable the Rule Select NEXT Select MSGID as the KEY Select EQUALS as the Operator Select Value CGIS013I Select NEXT Do Not use a Schedule. Select NEXT Select No Operation for the Alert You will not need... [More]

This is a Linked Rule that says if the Server goes down “DO NOT” Notify me unless the server is down for more than 5 minutes. But if the Server is down for longer than 5 minutes send an Alert. From the Console Go to Manage>Rules/Actions and select Rules Select the Plus + button to create Name the Rule - I used Server1 Down Enable the Rule Select NEXT Select MSGID as the KEY Select EQUALS as the Operator Select Value CCTR034E Select NEXT Do Not use a Schedule. Select NEXT Select No Operation for the Alert You will not need an... [More]

Beginning with release 6.0.0, Control Center started moving configuration elements to the database from the .xml files used in earlier releases.  These changes have made the earlier methods of using existing configurations invalid and no longer supported. NOTE : Because of changes made migrating the configuration elements from the xml files to the database you will need to back up your database before going forward.  If for any reason you have to go back to the prior release you not be able to use the updated databases to revert to... [More]

The SSP factory certificate that comes with the product is expiring December 1, 2017 at 10:54 PM EST. This certificate is installed as the default certificate and is used for the secure connections to the CM GUI and between the CM and engine. If customers have not installed their own certificate to replace the factory certificate, then after the expiration date, the CM will no longer be able to communicate with the engine to push configurations and will not be able access the CM GUI securely through a web browser. To determine if the CM and... [More]

The link provided in this blog will assist you with setting up Secure Proxy to access the Sterling B2B Integrator REST API interface.   Accessing B2Bi REST API

ATTENTION: Customers using Connect:Direct for Windows v4.6.x!                        This product will reach END OF SUPPORT on September 30 2017 .                        IBM Support will stop supporting this product after this date. See the following announcement.... [More]

ATTENTION: Customers using Connect:Direct for UNIX v4.1.x!                        This product will reach END OF SUPPORT on September 30 2017 .                        IBM Support will stop supporting this product after this date. See the following announcement.... [More]

Connect:Direct for z/OS 5.2 introduced a new feature for zEDC hardware compression. This allows you to perform hardware-based data compression if you have a zEDC Express Accelerator available on your system.   You may see one of the following messages at startup depending on the status of your zEDC card: SITA375I 'zEDC Express Accelerator status is UNAVAILABLE' If you see this, then you do not have a zEDC card available for use by Connect:Direct so run out and quickly buy one. This is a warning and can be safely ignored.  ... [More]

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Occasionally there are problems with the SSL/TLS handshake beyond the normal everyday problems of expired certificates or mis-matched certificate chains, etc.  These problems sometimes require a more thorough debug tracing of the SSL handshake process.   While SSP has logging at different levels for many different components enabled through the Configuration Manager, the SSL handshake is enabled during startup.  This can be done by adding it to the java startup line in the startEngine.sh if you're running on Unix/Linux, or to... [More]

The offset is calculated by the first character of the set. The first character of the hexadecimal value you count down and then go across by the second character. Example: In the ASCII to EBCDIC def_send.sxlt translation table an ASCII x'20' you count down 0,1,2 lines then across 0 which is a EBCDIC x'40'      offset=0 0    00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 05 15 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 1    10 11 12 13 3C 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F 2-0  40 5A 7F 7B 5B 6C 50 7D 4D 5D 5C 4E 6B 60 4B... [More]

Occasionally we encounter a circumstance where certificates have been checked in on both sides of an HTTP communications link and the authentication fails.  This is sometimes a result of the difference certificate being checked in on the server side than expected.  A quick way to check this is to use the following OpenSSL command to connect to the remote machine and display the certificate chain and public details of that chain.  This can then be compared to the expected certificate chain to verify that the correct chain elements... [More]

The Silent Installation process for Connect:Direct for UNIX v4.2.x can be a bit daunting. There is a significant amount of preparation work that needs to be done. Here is a PowerPoint presentation on how to do the Silent Installation process. The presentation includes screenshots for the various steps involved. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049324  

You have a need to pull select statistics from archived ESDS statistics files to generate a report. First you will need to create a ESDS/KSDS pair of the archived ESDS file(s).   1. Log onto the C:D IUI.   2. Go to the ADMIN menu.   3. Go to the INQ menu.   4. Enter IDIR. On this panel you can enter a starting date and ending date range  that you know the desire statistics are in or you can blank out Start Date to get  everything. You will still need to have some idea of the     date range you... [More]