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Sterling B2B Integration SaaS

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Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Message received at M & M but Inflight has not received a response that it is processed.

A report which provides more indepth information on the the Invoice details, where the file is processed from IBM side to the client but an acknowledgment is not received from client. For Example, If an autoDx invoice is processed from Trading p...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Debugging option in SI Map Editor

Debugging in sterling Integrator map editor is a bit complex and time-consuming process, it has many limitations and there is no user friendly of displaying error messages. Currently it will support only 26 CERROR statements in the translation. So...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

XML to EDI outbound data does not inlcude reference to ST envelope within InFlight

Whether source format is FLAT file or XML file, we should always display ST envelope details in inflight (if we can find a match during enveloping service). In a nXML_TO_EDI flow, XML flow uses typing service where a typing map is executed (instea...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

JMS parameters in Inflight Delivery Event Details

When the files are delivered to JMS MQ at we are able see only the JMS queue in the Inflight Event details. It would be really helpful if other JMS parameter(SenderNonEDIID, ReceiverNonEDIID & DestinationProtocolSubject) also also being captur...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Clone option for Code list item Config:Center:

We generally add new entries (SenderID/ReceiverDI Lookup) to the existing codelist table. where most of the time we endup adding same Text1 to Text9 values to the new entry. Hence by having a "clone item" option beside the "Add item" it will be he...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Request for Close all button in SPE Config:Center

The recent hyperlinking to the Next envelope name is very useful in Config Center. However, for validating one transaction set (Ex: X12 850: ST-GS-ISA 3 envelopes). I end up opening 6 windows as shown in the attached image and 6 times I need to cl...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enable FTP/SFTP delivery mode to deliver BPN Automated Reports

Currently BPN Automated reports are configured to deliver these only via email. Can we add other communication protocols ( FTP/SFTP ) to deliver these reports. Because most of the clients are requesting to deliver these files to their ERP systems....
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

BPN AUTOMATED TRADING PARTNER SUMMARY REPORTS ADD TRADING PARTNER NAME

Clients are asking for the trading partner names be added to the BPN Automated reports as this feature is on the summary report if you manually run the report from Inflight, the automated ones from BPN Automated summary report does not include this.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Extrainfo2 Report on BPN Automated Report Configurations

As part of the existing BPN Reporting we have options to pull Externalinfo1 report on BPN Automated Report Configurations, but it has been observed that although we have Extrainfo2 report listed on BPN, we do not have stored procedure for the same...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration