Troubleshooting the Connect:Direct bridge

Use the following tasks and examples to help you diagnose errors returned from the Connect:Direct® bridge.

Log information for the Connect:Direct bridge
You can use a Connect:Direct bridge agent to transfer files between MFT agents and Connect:Direct nodes. Log information about the Connect:Direct nodes and processes involved in these transfers is displayed in the IBM® MQ Explorer plug-in and is stored in your log database.
Connect:Direct file paths specified with a double forward slash
If, as part of a file transfer, you specify a file located on a Connect:Direct node by using a file path that starts with a double forward slash (//), the file is treated as a data set.
Tracing the Connect:Direct bridge
You can capture trace from the Connect:Direct node that is part of the Connect:Direct bridge to help with problem determination.
Solving permissions issues with Connect:Direct nodes
Use the information in this topic if your transfers between Managed File Transfer and Connect:Direct fail with an error about insufficient permissions.
Troubleshooting data conversion issues for text transfers to or from Connect:Direct nodes
Ensure that the network map of the Connect:Direct bridge node and any Connect:Direct nodes that are used as a transfer destination include the correct platform description.
Troubleshooting failed transfers to PDS or PDS members through the Connect:Direct bridge
If the destination of a transfer is a Connect:Direct node on z/OS® and is a PDS or PDS member, the transfer fails if the -de parameter has not been specified with a value of overwrite.
Increasing the number of concurrent transfers for the Connect:Direct bridge
To increase the number of concurrent transfers that the Connect:Direct bridge agent can process, you must change three agent properties. You must also increase the maximum number of connections that the Connect:Direct node accepts.
Debugging a Connect:Direct process that is called by a file transfer
For a Connect:Direct process that is called by a file transfer, you can configure the Connect:Direct bridge agent to write log information to the output0.log file in the Connect:Direct bridge agent configuration directory.

Parent topic: Troubleshooting Managed File Transfer problems