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Request for New filter options in Inflight for communication type and pod

In the search for document option. Could you add the communication type to the search ? Like AS2, SFTP, Van or FTP. It would also be VERY useful if you could add the option to select a POD like POD41 and only see those that go thru that POD. When ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Need Additional Columns in Inflight Trading Partner Activity Report

The additional Columns in Inflight Activity Report ( Data Received and Data Sent Date-time stamp ) will help Clients (any SCBN clients)to generate more detailed reports. For instance, it will help them determine the time taken for data (i.e. ORDE...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Allow conversion of mapped fields as PDF

To preserve integrity of the generated data contents, businesses are increasingly reliant on PDF documents to improve document readability (due to fixed formatting) and integrity. Secondary concept / objective: To generate a standard PEPPOL e-...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Allow duplicate 997's to create SAP Status Message instead of failing

Today in SCBN, if a partner resends a 997or sends a new 997 for an already acknowledged document, and the 997 is used to generate a status message back to SAP, the process fails. SCBN should allow for SAP Status messages to be generated and sent t...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Not under consideration

API response status of eInvoice in Peppol

Currently, if there is an error while sending eInvoices, SCBN will send a notification email to the main partner. The partner has to manually update the status of the eInvoice or inform the customer on the status via offline means such as a phone ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Decompress .zip files

We have a requirement where the partner application will send compressed(.zip) files. One zip file will contain multiple documents in it. The zip file should be decompressed and the individual files should be sent to the downstream application. An...
2 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 0 Under review

Map name in InFlight Configure columns section.

In the outbound scenario sometimes we have seen for same TP ISA ID we will have different maps being used and having map name in configure column would help to list all the maps being used by the same TP. In some cases we have seen TP comes up wit...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Does IBM have the capability to attach an 864 or 824 to an original OB doc in IBM when a 864/824 is sent back by a customer to highlight the said errors

Does IBM have the capability to attach an 864 or 824 to an original OB doc in IBM when a 864/824 is sent back by a customer to highlight the said errors? Similar to how a 997 is attached to document in the "Document Detail" section of Inflight. Ba...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network 4 Not under consideration

Legacy Inflight to have search option based on User ID for protocols (FTP/SFTP/AS2ID/HTTP/OFTP2(SSID/SFID))

We have request from high volume customers like VF Services/Ceva etc requesting for change in the protocol relationship as the partner has moved to other service provider/change in the protocol url's or moving from one protocol to other like (FTP ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add version manager for BPN rules and version change history(Salesforce Case number) as searchable field

Existing: Current BPN rules(specific to a customer) does not have any unique name(like partner name or anything unique)which troubleshooter can use to collect/trace all rules where message can pass to. Required: As we have version manager for...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration