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Reset reused workfiles for maps in the Launcher

Reusing workfiles makes map faster as it speeds up the alidation process. However, changes in data mean special care has to be taken to avoid issues for the concerned maps. Currently, one has to manually remove the workfiles after the Launcher was...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Reset Launcher "Black list" for failed messages

Whenever a message triggers a map failure, even if the failure is not related to the message's content, the message is blacklisted by the launcher and will not be trigered again. This avoids "poison messages" but needs a restart to have the messag...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Increase Session Inactive Timeout For Admin Users

Increase Session Inactive Timeout For Admin Users from 20 minutes to 120 minutes.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 2 Not under consideration

Control Number History should be sorted by control number so they are easy to find.

Very often control numbers must be deleted to reprocess an EDI document and their are most often way to many pages of control numbers to look through to find the one in question.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Open MCS.CLIST until either TCP or SNA support available

NDM modify commands will fail before local node sign on complete either via TCP or SNA, so open MCS.CLIST until either TCP or SNA support available is more appropriate especially for users who depend on modify command to monitor NDM.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include API monitoring/output in CD Logs

API connects to the CD product can be for File Transfer submissions or stat gathering for another use such as log checks. These API have a max value configurable on the local node entry in CD netmap file but currently there is no logging of API ac...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the Excel adapter design to accommodate\control Excel worksheet cell properties for data added by the Excel adapter.

We would like to create $ input amounts as a 'CURRENCY' field. Since the adapter only handles output as General TEXT format we are confined to this format and no other.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 4 Not under consideration

Graph to display fulfillment plan for a particular order

being capable to see a graph related to fulfillment plan of a particular order: where/when each item is sourced, with TO and PO generated to transfer items between nodes, items merge visualized with dates at a particular node then at the end, deli...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

DB Extract agent should be extracting data more frequently

Currently the field 'FrequencyInHours' in the DB Extraction agent configuration defines how frequently the data can be extracted. The min value for FrequencyInHours is 1 hour. This would mean that we can only pick up data that is older than 1 hour...
over 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 4 Not under consideration