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Digital Connect Check-In 21.12 Release Notes

Release Identification

Release Version Type (Version, Update, or Patch) Date Approved by Description of Change
21.12 Version 30 Nov 2021

Grzegorz Kurek,

Rafal Holub

Software updated

Features

Digital Connect Check-In introduces new features and enhancements in the following areas:

  • IATA TSA SSR DOCS add for Unspecified Gender and U for Undisclosed Gender  
  • DCCI Service Update for IBM Application-Sabre BRD-V1.0
  • Extension of Baggage/ Check-in Service
  • Date of Birth - Enhancement of Logic for 2-digits Year Display
  • Filter Other Airlines Segment
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​​​Defects

The following Digital Connect Check-In defects have been fixed for this release.

  • Dedicated LNIATA for GOL Using Improper Port 30032 When DW Refresh
  • //ET - PROD - Digital Connect - Check-in - Unable to Check-in Online 
  • Missing VCR, No Eligibility Warning

The following sections explain more details about the new items.

 

IATA TSA SSR DOCS add X for Unspecified Gender and U for Undisclosed Gender  

Trade bodies Airlines for America (A4A) and the International Air Transport Association approved changes to booking procedures to include non-binary gender options. 
Beside the M (male), F (female) gender options, Customers booking the flights must also be offered a non-binary gender option for passengers, like U (undisclosed) or X (unspecified). 
Currently, Digital Connect Check-In supports  genders M (Male) and F (Female). With this update, Digital Connect Check-In supports two new genders – U (Undisclosed) and X (Unspecified).


Support New Gender X and U

Digital Connect Check-In supports genders M (Male) and F(Female). With this upgrade,  Digital Connect Check-in supports two more genders - U (Undisclosed) and X (Unspecified). 

Prerequisites

SSCI must support gender U (Undisclosed) and gender X (Unspecified)  

Limitations

None

Configuration

Property Name Description Example
Value
Data
Type
s4ci.feature.document.enhancedGender.enabled = true (default false)    Determines whether the gender: U (Undisclosed) and X (Unspecified)  on passport must be returned in reservation.
Default is [false].

True

Boolean

DCCI Service Update for IBM Application-Sabre BRD-V1.0

Currently, Digital Connect Check-In provides aircraft IATA/ generic equipment code in seatmap service response. With multiple equipment types under the same fleet umbrella, it is a challenge to distinguish various seatmaps layouts. Digital Connect Check-In shares additional information about the aircraft type and provides the correct seatmap layout. 

Enhance SeatMap Request to Obtain the Seat Map for Different Versions of the Same Equipment Type

Digital Connect Check-In enhanced the seat map request, to receive correct seat map layout for different equipment types under the same fleet umbrella.

Prerequisites

s4ci.feature.seats.shouldCallSe= false 

Limitations

None

Configuration

Property Name Description Example
Value
Data
Type
backwardCompatibility.seatmap.aircraftConfigNumberEnabled = true  Indicates a flag to decide if the aircraft config number must be returned.

False

Boolean


Extension of Baggage/ Check-in Service

Migration of SSCI Baggage Services to v3

Digital Connect Check-In migrated the baggage services to version 3 (v3) of SSCI baggage services.  

Prerequisites

None

Limitations

None

Configuration

N/A


Extension of DCCI Baggage/ Checkin Service 

Digital Connect Check-In  extended the baggage/ checkin service to support new, additional elements to SSCI.

Prerequisites

The migration of SSCI baggage services to v3 must be completed.  

Limitations

None

Configuration

N/A


Date of Birth - Enhancement of Logic for 2-digits Year Display

Date of Birth - Enhancement of Logic for 2 Digit Display 

The date of birth can be written using four digits from the year of birth, which is a recommended solution, or only the last two digits of the year of birth.
Until now, when the last two digits were provided to Digital Connect Check-In, it relied on the java datetime utilities that use the current datetime, -80 years and +20 years as the context to determine a century. This is not a perfect solution as in some cases, the year of birth can be wrongly placed in the future. Digital Connect Check-In changed the logic to avoid providing the dates in the future. 

Prerequisites

N/A

Limitations

None

Configuration

N/A


Filter Other Airlines Segment

Digital Connect Check-In returns non-hosted segments in the passenger details,  from the PNR. Some of the airlines prefer to avoid showing the non-hosted segments when such a segment is the first returned segment. 

Filtering Other Airlines Segment

If the configuration that is used to populate the segments and, is returned in the reservation is set to PNR_BASED, then the non-hosted segments are also returned.  

Some airlines prefer to filter out other airline segments when returned along with the passenger details from the PNR, as the first segment in the segments sequence. 

Digital Connect Check-In has added a new validation which when turned ON for filters, such, non-hosted flights return a hosted segment as the first flight.    

Prerequisites

s4ci.feature.passengerDetails.returnedSegmentsRules = PNR_BASED

Limitations

None

Configuration

Property Name Description Example
Value
Data
Type
s4ci.feature.passengerDetails.skipPrecedingOaSegments     Default is [false]
 

Only applicable if the returnedSegmentsRules=PNR_BASED.

If enabled, OA segments are returned only if they are after the first hosted segment in the PNR, according to their sequence number.
Default is [false]

True

Boolean


Dedicated LNIATA for GOL Using Improper Port 30032 When DW Refresh

Customer Tracking #:

N/A

Sabre Tracking #:

CSSDC-2212

Description:

The TA’s were in a locked out state, and were hung up in port 30032; when the TA was grabbed from the pool in CUTE, the users received “unable to display name field” “unable to connect to host”. This continued for few weeks and, started to deplete the available LNIATA’s with reports of previously mentioned error, One carrier reported this issue. 
As per the investigation, the FLIFO service is the culprit. Digital Connect Check-In team has looked at the possibility to remove the call to FLIFO which is no longer needed in this case.  

Resolution:

Digital Connect Check-In team investigated to remove the call to FLIFO Configurable feature for skipping Flifo in DCCI /passenger/details has been added, to enable this feature it is needed to s4ci.technical.skipFlifo = true (default false).

Programs/Modules Affected:

N/A

 


/ET - PROD - Digital Connect - Check-in - Unable to Check-in Online 

Customer Tracking #:

N/A

Sabre Tracking #:

CSSDC-2248

Description:

As per ET, passengers are unable to check-in online on both MOB APP And website platforms. On the mobile app, it sends a response "all segments are not eligible for online check-in"; but, on the website, it freezes after the seat selection page.

Resolution:

The logic related to the ALL_SEGMENTS_ARE_NOT_ELIGIBLE_FOR_CHECK_IN ineligibility was adjusted.

Programs/Modules Affected:

N/A

 


Missing VCR, No Eligibility Warning

Customer Tracking #:

N/A

Sabre Tracking #:

CSSDC-2246

Description:

In the event of a PNR missing VCR information, there is no eligibility indicator reprising of the missing information. This causes the customer application to proceed to the check-in stage, and receive a NO VCR FOUND-ISSUE TKT OR COLLECT TKT ? USE TKT EDIT (since no VCR is present).
Digital Connect Check-In must validate presence of a VCR is  in SSCI and return an eligibility flag based on it. 

Resolution:

This issue has been fixed by enhancing the eligibility logic.
Now, INVALID_VCR is returned in case a flight is marketed by another airline.

Programs/Modules Affected:

N/A