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Change Control Integration in Sterling PEM

When Sterling PEM Admin Users / B2B Ops Teams perform Trading Partner onboarding, there can be ancillary IT tasks such as firewall/network setups, certificate/key updates, backend ERP configuration updates, etc. Orgs employ Change Control Manageme...
4 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Submitted

Native OAUTH2.0 and OIDC Support for IDP federation in Sterling PEM

Sterling PEM today does not have OAUTH2.0/OIDC support to IDPs (Eg: Azure AD, Okta, etc). Typically implementation would pivot to use SAML2.0 via Sterling Secure Proxy, but Customers may not want to use SSP for auth and instead prefer native OAUTH...
4 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security Submitted

Need Audit logs for partners deleted in PEM/PCM

Currently if a partner is removed from PCM, then there is no audit log as who deleted the partner. We opened a case with IBM but they confirmed that currently that is not available and can be requested by RFE in future. Our audit requirement is to...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration Submitted

IBM PEM – Enhancement Request Feature Area: Rollout & Campaign Management – Escalation Notification Framework

In IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM), when a Rollout or Campaign activity is created and reminder notifications are configured, the system sends email reminders exclusively to the registered partner contact email address. This is the only notif...

Critical Usability Limitation Impacting Implementation

During implementation, we encountered a significant usability limitation in the product’s table component. The current design does not support tables with more than 11 columns, and the table width cannot be extended. As a result, users are forced ...
4 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability Submitted

AS2 File status updates

When trying to send a file to the customer, it shows in PCM that the file was successful. See screenshot #1. When you View Activity, it shows that the file/s were sent to AS2. See screenshot #2. However, the AS2 connection is not working. When tes...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability Submitted

PCM File Reprocessing

User would like the ability to see the status updating with the appropriate status once a file has been reprocessed. Example when a file has been reprocessed user would like to see the different stages the file is flowing though (Processed, Timed ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability Submitted

Add AS4 Protocol to Partner Community Manager

With planned addition of AS4 to the core Sterling B2b Integrator, we request that the Partner Community Manager be updated to add AS4 as a protocol in the application/partner configurations. Partner/Application screens should allow for AS4 partner...

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning For example on the typing side users can have 2 setups that both have the same sender, reciever, document type and when cm_coreprocess gets back the results from the typing ser...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability Submitted

Proposal for SAML 2.0 Support in IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM) to Enable Federated Authentication

As part of our enterprise security standards, all public-facing components must support federated authentication using SAML 2.0 with an enterprise Identity Provider (IdP). Currently, IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM) does not officially support...
11 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security Submitted