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Sterling Partner Engagement Manager

Allow Users to Correct Input and Re-Submit After Exit Validation Failure

We would like to raise a usability concern regarding the behavior of Exit Validations in workflow activities within the new PEM experience. Current Scenario Consider the following workflow design: A Sponsor Task contains a form with an input field...
12 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Submitted

Improve API Request Parameter Mapping Experience in New PEM

Current Behavior in New PEM We have activities that invoke APIs with request payloads containing multiple JSON parameters. During API Request Mapping, each parameter needs to be mapped to data from the workflow, form fields, variables, or previous...
12 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows Submitted

Increase and Configure Text Area Character Limits in New PEM Forms

Current Limitation The Text Area field is intended for capturing larger amounts of information, such as descriptions, business justifications, comments, notes, explanations, and detailed user input. However, in the new PEM experience, the Text Are...
17 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 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...

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 ...
8 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability Submitted

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 months 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 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 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...

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...
over 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 ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability Submitted