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Mapping & Translation

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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...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

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 ...
16 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Enable New ProcessingFlags 4/5/6 to support complex implementations

We are currently supporting ProcessingFlags 1/2/3 only in GIODE. These processing flags are preserved and passed to down stream flows (from parent to child processes). They are available in rule conditions as well to decide data routing. We would ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Planned for future release

Add "Source Reference Number" field in Inflight for document search and reporting purposes

Customer wants IBM to add "Source Reference Number" field in InFlight portal for searching their SAP outbound documents and also make it available in reports (outbound & summary reports). Typically we update "IDOC Number" from translation map ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release

Require sequential number/counter that resets every day

Customer requires a new sequential counter that resets every day. They use this counter in the data content as well as in file names. This counter reset should be configurable based on timezone and accessed by maps as well as routing rules
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

File size for config Hub map tester should be increased beyond 50MB size limit, customer-Breakthrough beverage facing lot of failures

Our SCBN customer-Breakthrough beverage Corp facing lot of failures for processing Invoice to their partners as their file size is going beyond 50MB, same issue has been seen multiple times with other customers as well.File size for config Hub map...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Uploading of Test Files to be Optional for IBMers

While uploading a map to Config Hub it is mandatory to upload a valid Input file even in CTE, along with the Source and Compiled map.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

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...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration