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Alerting/Notifications

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Enhance your automated email on a VAN Failure transmission to us

We sometimes receive emails entitled: "IBM Sterling Information Broker Services (System Notification) - Message Undeliverable".The email tells us something went wrong sending a message from someone to someone. It lacks any useful information to he...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Not under consideration

Need ability to display and edit ERN trading partner contact information

There is no way to easily display and edit ERN trading partner contact information. If an error occurs there is no easy way to find out who gets notified. No action can be taken if errors are sent to an incorrect contact.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Enable FTP/SFTP delivery mode to deliver BPN Automated Reports

Currently BPN Automated reports are configured to deliver these only via email. Can we add other communication protocols ( FTP/SFTP ) to deliver these reports. Because most of the clients are requesting to deliver these files to their ERP systems....
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

BPN AUTOMATED TRADING PARTNER SUMMARY REPORTS ADD TRADING PARTNER NAME

Clients are asking for the trading partner names be added to the BPN Automated reports as this feature is on the summary report if you manually run the report from Inflight, the automated ones from BPN Automated summary report does not include this.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Extrainfo2 Report on BPN Automated Report Configurations

As part of the existing BPN Reporting we have options to pull Externalinfo1 report on BPN Automated Report Configurations, but it has been observed that although we have Extrainfo2 report listed on BPN, we do not have stored procedure for the same...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Adding 997 Ack status report on SPE which covers all status along with ExtraInfo1 and ExtraInfo2 data fields

As per the existing BPN Reporting we have multiple options to pull reports including the Externalinfo1, Externainfo2 fields reports which covers the Ackstatus of the outbound files including the success, failures and overdue. I have attached a scr...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Adding ExtraInfo1 and ExtraInfo2 onto SPE reports

I can see that the existing BPN Reports has options for running reports to get the ExteraInfo1 and ExtraInfo2 reports but the SPE Reporting has not been given with this option. We need this information as we are storing some of the important det...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Timestamp for the .map/.mxl and the .txo are the same

User Logins into SPE or POD for loading maps.Search with Map Name , then click on Check out, Browser for .map and .txo and click Next,Select the latest map loaded and then click on Finish.Successfully loaded message is displayed.Alert/Notification...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Lock manager for Codelists and Maps on SPE

By having this lock manager, Users who are updating the code-list or maps won't be able to access the same resource at the same time
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Mailslot additions

I have previously submitted a request on the Sterling/IBM site for additional mail slots so we can test our new implementation of B2B. I have heard nothing back.
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration