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Mapping & Translation

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Pass status message to customer in case of API errors

Currently when an API is invoked, the API response can be passed from the API Gateway to the GIODE when a success response is received from the API. The API response cannot be passed to the GIODE in case of errors. The request here is to enhance t...
18 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Planned for future release

Issue with chinese characters or Ukranian characters in Sterling Map Editor

Hi Team, We’ve observed that the Sterling B2Bi Map Editor Interface currently does not support the input of Chinese or Ukrainian characters. Could you please investigate whether this limitation is related to UTF-8 multi-byte character handling or ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Needs more information

Ability to invoke Data Enrichment API calls during the translation mapping flow in SaaS

Process Inbound Purchase order based on the lookup value(N1 02) API call to Customer backend and get inventory details based on the location for further processing the order.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Config Center Status message specific to X12/EDIFACT FA’s

We require an enhancement to the C:Center Status message profiles to allow for the selection of 'Input_Doc' as a Target Document when triggering status messages for Functional Acknowledgements (997/CONTRL). Currently, when the conditions 'EDIFACT ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Future consideration

Individual Status Messaging: On a batched IB EDI File with Deenveloping

Currently, the de-envelope service processes a single file containing multiple ISA/UNB/UNA interchanges by splitting and translating each interchange individually without any preprocess split. However, status messages configured at the de-envelope...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Allow custom metadata tags rather than forcing predefined tags like "business reference"

Our viewers come from many teams and may want to search documents by different important tags. Such as 'SHID', 'MBOL', 'LoadNumber', 'OrderNumber', 'InvoiceNumber', etc. Today Inflight only allows "Business Ref", and ExtraInfo 1-3 for data like th...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) / Mapping & Translation 4 Future consideration

Config Hub - Pop up warning if Customer/Support/Dev Team updating the Codelist values in CTE to PROD for the variant type Codelist

We are using the Codelist Solution for below scenarios and if anyone inserted the wrong data due to confusion or manual error it will effect the lot of transactions failing or due to data missing in output files. Below are the scenarios: We are us...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to mass download maps, codelists, envelopes, comm setups and routing rules for periodic backup

The customer wants the ability to download their assets—maps, envelopes, codelists, communication setups, and routing rules—from our SaaS platform via APIs. This will allow them to maintain a local backup of latest copies of these assets.
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Regular expression flexibility for Search and Replace Xprocessor in BPNST Tool

Currently we have search and replace xprocessor for search a specific character/sequence of characters and replace with another character/sequence of another characters and if we need more characters to be search and replace then it's time taking ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration