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Preserve text as text and Booleans as Booleans

We received the following XML:<CAD05><false</CAD05> The XML is defined as a "string" in the XML Schema. We output this to JSON to a field also defined as "string" in the JSON Schema. Yet, even with TEXT() or PACKAGE() calls the outp...

Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

SFTP: Emit a Communication Session entry (or equivalent event) for each authentication failure attempt, including attempt number and reason

Product / Component IBM Sterling B2B Integrator / SFG – SFTP Server Adapter Current Behavior For SFTP, authentication may fail up to multiple times within a single SSH session negotiation. These failures do not produce distinct Communication Sessi...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

LZ4 compression in Kafka consumer adapter

The Kafka consumer adapter is unable to retrieve messages from Kafka topics that have LZ4 compression. Is there a solution in the Sterling Integrator Kafka settings, or how should we manage this? Without compression, there will be many concerns wi...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Allow CSR to Select Alternate UOM for Ordering

Sterling OMS supports placing orders using alternate UOM. For example, ordering a product by the CASE instead of EACH. The conversion quantity from the inventory UOM to the alternate UOM for ordering is setup in the item master. However, currently...
3 months ago in Call Center 1 Submitted

Add comprehensive security-audit logging to IBM ITXA (auth events, privilege changes, high-risk data actions, administrative activity)

During Case TS018931782 we learned that ITXA currently logs only technical runtime events (tpuiserver, system logs). No built-in audit trail exists for: Required security event Current ITXA capability Failed login / logout attempts None Successful...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

Users Need to be able to save their filters

We have multiple users that monitor different servers and the servers they monitor a particular week can change. It would be a great if users could save their filtered servers under a name that is meaningful to them and then they can select it for...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Submitted

Add Conection to ISERIES Servers

Hello, We need to connect Steling control Center Director to ISERIES Servers to manage the configurations of netmap, secure+, Userfile. Actually its not possible with this software (SCCDirector). We are managing more thant 1500 servers with connec...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

Automatic reconfiguration of primary cluster node

It would be so much easier to migrate and not create a new databases just for adding or removing old nodes. Easier for maintenance and scalability as well.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted