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Send record length and block size larger than 4050 on HPNS Connect Direct

The record size when it worked was BLK Size = 27944 and RECL = 3992 it was changed to BLK SIZE = 21742 RECL= 10871 and then the job fail to completed and abend in NDM
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 9 Delivered

Option to include Associated Data file in the Enhanced Reporting Notification (ERN) Emails

We are currently sending metadata and translation error report only in ERN emails. Customer wants us to include input data file that caused failures as one of the file attachments in ERN emails. This will help their support team to look at the inp...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Delivered

Single Sign-on (SSO) with SAML or OIDC authentication is required for the Sterling User Interfaces (UIs), including C:D, SSP, SEAS, SFG, SCCM and SCCD. Migration from a legacy LDAP connection to a federated (SAML or OIDC) connection is required for all UIs, by US Federal Agencies.

This is required to comply with US Federal Security requirements mandated to all US Federal Agencies.
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Delivered

API Communication Protocol Enhancements in relation to Transfer Attributes passed to GIODE

Action 1: Enhance the /payloads API to produce XML output based on the ‘Accept’ header. Respond with a 200 status for application/xml and application/json requests. Action 2: Limit the overall payload size for /payloads to 4MB and the size of a si...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Delivered

Config Hub Codelist interface to have search and edit options

Can the Config Hub codelist interface have the option to search and edit any codelist entry rather than downloading the entire dump of codelist from CTE/Production? The reason is that we have customers who have thousands of entries in a codelist a...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation / Onboarding 0 Delivered

Supply and Demand Snapshots

Similar to Product Availability snapshot where On Hand Available Quantity and Future Available Quantity are sent on demand in an event - we would like the option to push a Supply Event Snapshot and Demand Event Snapshot that will contain all the S...
2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

Support for JSON schema : natively and type tree Importer

Currently the ITX product is designed to be used with JSON data, and not the JSON schema (Native and Importer). Example : "age": { "$ref": "secondary.json#/properties/age"} With more systems adapting to JSON based message transformation and use sw...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 Delivered

Capture correct HTTP response document and display it back in INFLIGHT portal for the HTTP Protocol connections

Need a small enhancement from GIODE protocol squad to properly capture correct HTTP response document and display it back in INFLIGHT portal . This is critical for Berkshire Project with a go-live date of 03/29/2022.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 2 Delivered

Provide Usermod or disable DGAXTABL by default

After installing PTFs UI91208, UI90597 we began having failures with transmissions which we later identified as DGAXTABL being introduced. PTF UI91208 had no hold information about updating DGAXTABL exit requirement whatsoever, and UI90597 had an ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered