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InFlight API' - TP Summary

We have Reports available in inflight which Customer can run and download them from inflight (TP Summary /Inbound Activity Report /outbound Activity reports) Customer is asking for API so that they can fetch the Reports through API,Please do the n...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Planned for future release

Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Propagate DSNTYPE values between z/OS systems

Consider cloning the DSNTYPE values for transfers between z/OS systems by the default. Shouldn't be necessary to specify them if the source dataset must be the same as the destination
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Entry Validation Reordering

The order of entry validation determines how entries are evaluated, however entries cannot be moved up or down the list in the UI. In order to create successfully create entry validation criteria, the ability to either insert entries at any place ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic Selection of data in UI Tables

We are referring below article, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/partnerengagemanager?topic=components-defining-static-dynamic-data We have one requirement where we want to show the dynamic data on PEM UI tables while activity execution and also based ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 0 Under review

"HALT_ON_MATCH_TRANS_ERROR" should be exposed in the config center UI

Currently, the files are not failing in any CERROR logic implemented in the DocExtraction map.We recently saw the scenario that if we were getting an empty receiver ID from doc-extract map, then it would fail with envelope not found.But one of the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

FileTransfer using connect direct with S3 directly

The ability to support CDU/S3 direct access from on-prem nodes is not present in this release. if connect direct unix directly about to do file transfers with S3 would benefit the business. It would be a game changer in file transfers for cloud.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration