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Add "SourceReferenceNumber" field in Inflight for document search and reporting purposes

Customer wants IBM to add "SourceReferenceNumber" field in InFlight portal for searching their SAP inbound/outbound documents and also make it available in reports (Inbound/outbound & summary reports). Typically we update "IDOC Number" from tr...

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...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

This RFE proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication.

Request for Enhancement (RFE): OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This RFE proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. OIDC i...
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Submitted

Ability to add notes on bulk orders from COM

This would allow the users to update the same notes to mutiple orders at the same time, which would save a lot of time where the user has to update the same note to multiple orders
8 days ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Submitted

Add Certificate Expiration Date to the list of fields logged for a partner certificate CERT= log event

Currently when a partner connects to our Connect:Direct server and negotiates a successful SecurePlus TLS connection, we can see other details of their X.509 certificate CERT= field like Common Name, Locality, State, Country, Serial Number and Fin...
8 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to HOLD data at IBM during customer's maintenance window and RELEASE it after maintenance (SAP ALE Connections)

Couple of protocols like CD allows IBM to HOLD inbound data during customer's maintenance/outage window and release it when their system is back to normal. We don't have similar "HOLD" mechanism with other protocols like SAP ALE adapter. For Proto...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Enable New ProcessingFlags 4/5/6 to support complex implementations

We are currently supporting ProcessingFlags 1/2/3 only in GIODE. These processing flags are preserved and passed to down stream flows (from parent to child processes). They are available in rule conditions as well to decide data routing. We would ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Planned for future release

Build "Mass Data Compare Tool" that can handle comparing any payload formats in bulk

Customer wants IBM to compare their post translated data between SCBN outputs and outputs from their on-premise systems. They want to pump 3-4 months worth of data via new solution and have all those files compared against similar outputs from the...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Not under consideration

Ability to trigger Status Message and Email Notification based on Protocol Delivery Event

Customer wants IBM to trigger status message generation and email notification based on protocol delivery eventsAS2 - trigger status message (success & failure) and email alerts based on positive & negative MDN'sOFTP2 - trigger status mess...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 2 Not under consideration

SAP ALE Adapter - Support Connecting to Load Balanced SAP Environment

IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS platform does not support connecting to load balanced SAP environment using ALE connections today. We need changes to the existing JCo properties to enable this support. This should benefit all IBM Sterling B2B In...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Under review