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Require sequential number/counter that resets every day

Customer requires a new sequential counter that resets every day. They use this counter in the data content as well as in file names. This counter reset should be configurable based on timezone and accessed by maps as well as routing rules
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

A feature which will allow BA to move from one company to another company.

Hello, The main idea behind opening of this RFE request:- Due to some companies being sold to other SCBN customers companies merging into a single contract. Reconfiguring the entire BA manually under a different company can lead to any errors that...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation / Onboarding 2 Future consideration

Add support for EDIFACT Syntax Version 'X' in UNB envelope

It appears that the latest EDIFACT standards ("VDA-EDIFACT" for automotive) allow for an 'X' to be used as the syntax version in the UNB envelope. Unfortunately, doing so fails both enveloping and de-enveloping in SB2Bi (as confirmed by IBM PMR TS...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Submitted

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Ability to invoke Data Enrichment API calls during the translation mapping flow in SaaS

Process Inbound Purchase order based on the lookup value(N1 02) API call to Customer backend and get inventory details based on the location for further processing the order.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

S3 support for Linux on Power.

I would like to kindly request that S3 support be extended to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct versions running on Power systems. Many of our clients use Power platforms and are in need of this feature to meet their integration requirements.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

To install Connect:Direct on Kubernetes using OpenShift Restricted SCC

When operating in Connect Direct for Unix operating in Standard User Mode, the SCC allows the following capabilities and SETUID and SETGID requires Privilege Escalation. The customer request the Privilege Escalation to be false. The product should...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration

new version CD to microfocus

Regarding to particular case, we have detected that EBCDIC Microfocus Gravity (JLC emulation) conversions with UNIX origin to Snode UNIX do not support line break translations. The EBCDIC to ISO8859-1 codepage works, but any additional parameters ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Password Vault support for outgoing Connect Direct for Windows transfers

There is a need to execute Connect Direct transfers securely as a User/Functional ID managed through Password Vault.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 9 Future consideration