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Enhance inflight event details by including key metadata such as Profile ID, Map Name, and Rule ID..ect at each step of the transaction flow

At present, inflight events do not provide sufficient step-level details. This requires users to rely on multiple tools such as ConfigHub, ConfigCenter, and the BPN Support Tool to trace related artifacts, troubleshoot issues, and understand the o...
16 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) Needs more information

IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS - Data extract APIs: Need API to search with the JMS parameters (jms sender ID:, jms receiver ID:,jms message type:)

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } We require an API that uses the source and destination JMS sender ID, JMS receiver ID, and JMS message type values. These...
22 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / API Gateway Needs more information

Change connect direct status to turn green after CD transmision

Today SFTP status does not turn green until the SFTP session is complete. For CD the status turns green when a file is written to the file system prior to the CD completed sesion. Clarios would like this changed so that the status stay yellow unti...
29 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking Needs more information

PasswordExit caching

To improve performance on high-traffic systems, we propose implementing a password caching option within Connect:Direct's PasswordExit functionality. Instead of fetching a password from the integrated vault for every connection, Connect:Direct wil...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance Needs more information

Requesting API functionality to retrieve customer-managed user and group data within the SCBN Hub.

The customer currently leverages APIs available in other SaaS platforms to automatically retrieve user lists, apply role‑based filtering, and generate audit reports that are shared with designated approvers. This approach significantly reduces man...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other Needs more information

GIODE Protocol Failures get tracked in doc tracker

VAN Clients uses GIODE for trading partner direct connections. When files gets failed while delivering to direct connection partners, visibility is missing in doc tracker application.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking Needs more information

Ability to select TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 both for a node.

Currently Sterling Secure Proxy has the ability to support mixed mode of TLS 1.1,TLS 1.2. We have some partners who need to move to TLS 1.3 where as other continue to use TLS 1.2. Hence need the ability to select mixed mode of TLS 1.2,TLS1.3 .
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Needs more information

Document Visibility : Option to see proof of delivery like MDN / X400 ADMD

This idea is useful for customers to track the files delivered to their partner without raising a support case. Customer could view themselves the proof of delivery such as MDN for AS2, MTS ID for X400 connections.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking Needs more information

To be able to use same UOM code for multiple UOM Type (Eg: Quantity and Weight)

Currently OMoC is not able to define same UOM code for 2 different purposes. Eg: KGS / LBS for Weight and Quantity. This creates an issue and requires workaround to use different UOMs which would not be in sync with other systems. Hence leading to...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Needs more information

Connect:Direct for Zos Suports Object Storage

Connect:Direct for Zos does not support send/receiving files from/to Object Storages. Customers are urging that functionality for AWS and Azure.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS Needs more information