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Mapping & Translation

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User Exit enhancement allowing a map to read rows in the TransactionRegister

Adding the requirement as SCBN Premium customer has requested duplicate file check based on PO number, within a given timeframe. Their current requirement is to check for duplicate PO within 72 hours. Based on feedback from development team the ti...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Mapping, Transformation from/to Excel

Excel is becoming the usability standard for structured data. On many occassions the CSV file can't be used and formatted in Excel, so natively Excel is being used to exchange data.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Envelopes Extraction from SPE System

We have an option to export Envelopes from SPE system, But at a time we export envelopes only 100 entries which are displaying on the page. If we need another 100 entries.. we need to go for next page... :( and spending lot time in manual effort. ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Config Hub - Resource version selection and deployment option and Sync between Config Center and Config Hub

Existing Solution: Using Config Hub Customer/IBM Team can update the Resource but there is no option for revert back to old version and if we revert back through Config Center then new update creating in Config Hub instead of referring the old ver...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Planned for future release

[Copy] Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Enable runtime duplicate envelope check in Config Center

As part of new partner onboardings for all SCBN customers, Implementation team will create envelopes with client and partner EDI ID's on config center and there is always risk of creating duplicate envelopes because of incorrect information from c...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Debugging option in SI Map Editor

Debugging in sterling Integrator map editor is a bit complex and time-consuming process, it has many limitations and there is no user friendly of displaying error messages. Currently it will support only 26 CERROR statements in the translation. So...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Document conversion service

With increasing demand to handle PDF documents, it would be good to have this feature in SCBN where pdf can be read and converted to other formats. Similar to IBM Document Conversion Services. Is this service already in place in SCBN? Since ITX ca...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Functionality already exists

Enable option the upload additional filed when deploying ITX maps to SPE02.

Enable option the upload additional filed when deploying ITX maps to SPE02. Currently there is no feature to deploy the supporting files such as schema xsd files which is required for ITX maps when we use Xerces imported type tree and for input ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

ITX - Document Extraction ( BATCH mode )

As we already have the feature on SI, SI document extraction map uses update commands to update Sender Id, Receiver Id and AcceptorLookupAlias (ALA) from the set of batch flat files. Since JSON file is only supported by ITX map and when we receiv...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration