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C:D Container support for more than 1 replica

Currently there is a known limitation where IBM Connect:Direct for Unix chart is supported with only 1 replica count It would be very hepful to support more than 1 replica to be able to operate on different pods that may be on different worker nod...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 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...
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Have the ability to edit the form view when opening an item from workflow or work queues

I have come to notice that, if I open an item from Workflow or from Work Queues, I do not have the same option to edit the form view that I do when I open an item from the Items tab. For some materials, I would be interested in different fields, a...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 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.
6 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...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 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...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Delivered

automate updating of DB password in CCM

Passwords are periodically rotated and we want to avoid any issues during the manual update and automate the task. We have the script available in ../utils/runConfigCCSample.sh, but its updating all configuration parameters. We need to alter the s...

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
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 9 Delivered

Compliance map not generating valid XML message on edi_log.xml

edi_log.xml generated output compliance maps are not valid XML for both EDIFACT and X12. They are missing closing tag for EDIFACT & root opening/closing tags for X12.

REF segment mapping in the 277DRA 2200C Service Provider loop to map from Billing Provider REF segments form the 837 PACDR.

We use healthcare pack 10.2.1 and hipaa data compliance map.REF segment mapping in the 277DRA 2200C Service Provider loop to map from Billing Provider REF segments form the 837 PACDR
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered