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Automation of In-Place Node Renames -- CDU/CDW

Various application teams are approaching us for Connect:Direct high availability architecture guidance and advice -- or have decided to strengthen their C:D architecture -- after initial software installation. This is resulting in hundreds of CDW...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Inflight - Search box for Trading Partner Names

We have 1000+ TP Names for few clients like Electrolux, Ceva etc. in inflight NA & EU. We need to search the TP names using the browser search box. Instead of searching through browser box, we can introduce a search box in Trading Partner Name...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

ValidateItem flag behavior same as PROD items even for PS/DS service item types

For a business requirement, don't want to have a defined PS item in OMS but still want to proceed with order creation and fulfillment. To achieve this, tried using a flag given by Product called ValidateItem as N at OrderLine level during order cr...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Add check Box to show default rules in BPN

BPN does not have the capability of checking the default rules created for a specific customer business alias.If a checkbox is added, the Implementer/PER/Support teams will be able to easily identify the default rules created for the customer. It ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

BPN still have decommissioned translation POD's available under Target System drop down

BPN CTE and Production still have decommissioned translation POD's available under Target System drop down like POD 16, POD 20 till POD37.which sometimes create flow issues as these PODs are no longer available. If these decommissioned translation...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Adding "Dictionary password checker" for password

Prevent clients from using common word for password.. e.g. password
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Under review

Additional attribute fileds for INBOX view in sterling document tracking

Request to add additional attribute fields for INBOX view in sterling document tracking to have more searchable fields based on on the business data logging. Currently, IBM sterling is having only one attribute field available in INBOX view to fil...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 4 Future consideration

SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

customer overrides properties for liberty profile server.xml

We would like to have customer overrides setting to be used in the server.xml of the liberty profile instance managing the B2Bi API's.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Support for using NoSQL DB's

We are publishing extremely high amount of daily events and moving the data store into a NoSQL type DB would provide greater efficient and search speeds.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Future consideration