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Extend the length of the work code field in MROIO

We require a 2 character extension on the Work Code field from 2 digits to a 4 digit field. This would allow us more characters to add a two digit year designation for material that we track under the Nonbooked inventory returned work code. This i...
3 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Send record length and block size larger than 4050 on HPNS Connect Direct

The record size when it worked was BLK Size = 27944 and RECL = 3992 it was changed to BLK SIZE = 21742 RECL= 10871 and then the job fail to completed and abend in NDM
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 9

Request to Implement FLAG-Based InFlight Data Filters

InFlight data filters rely on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to display documents to users. This system works well for successful documents. However, if a failure occurs before the metadata (Sender, Receiver, Doctype) is resolved, those...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files.
4 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Submitted

Some important Transaction log sorting and searching functionality is missing

Functionality that was previously available on premise does not exist in the cloud.Examples:Advanced search (using AND/OR operator on different attributes)Sorting on other columns than DateChosen view (number of transactions, visible columns etc) ...
4 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Keep Netmap CREATED, UPDATED, USED AS xNODE fields

There are inconsistencies with the logic of the NETMAP entry fields, CREATED, UPDATED, and USED AS xNODEs, as they can lose true history of the netmap entries. CREATED Date/Time stamp is lost on the netmap unload and load process and if $$REPLACE ...
10 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Confirm Shipment accounting for PO ordering unit of measure

Idea Summary: Currently, Confirm Shipment is failing when the ASN is sent by the supplier in the PO ordering UOM and the API is not doing the conversion from the item ordering unit of measure to the item inventory unit of measure. The idea is to h...
8 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Request to Implement FLAG-Based ERN Alerts

ERN configurations rely heavily on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to trigger alerts to the users. This system works well if the sender/receiver/doctype is resolved by the time failure happens. However, if a failure occurs before the met...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Ability to limit user access to particular document types.

Ability to give access by document type to users. We would like to limit the document types a user can view, like 404, 824 and 997s.
5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

Utility to keep Cassandra tables in sync

There are times when Cassandra nodes may get out of sync and some of the nodes may deem it appropriate to bring back records that should no longer belong in the tables. For example: mailbox.messages, mailbox.messages_by_name and mailbox.messages_b...
18 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration