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InFlight - Add Protocol Process ID as an addable column on search page

Adding Protocol Process ID as a visible, searchable field in the results page would allow isolation of traffic by connection for easier troubleshooting. This would be beneficial for both clients and support, and seems like it should be easy to imp...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Functionality already exists

Add Reservation demand to the Demand Publish Event.

During reservation create/Update/Delete, demand publish should publish the reservation demand data to the topic. This will help business to make decisions to control the sale real-time during Checkouts and cancels.
11 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Planned for future release

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support to update trading partner (partner profile) data or ask to remove their data or configuration in SFG

Based a regulations like GDPR and LGPD customer needs do provide to their trading partners the option to update the trading partner profile thru myFG 2.0 or even an option to remove or download their data.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

CCD should keep track of connection high water mark

One of the ways to license C:D is based on the max number of connections over a given period. However, I'm told that this information is no longer available in CCD. The other option that was mentioned is being able to pull this from C:D directly.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

WTX/ITX Oracle adapter - automatic failover implementation

We are using the WTX/ITX Oracle adapter for our connection with an Oracle Exadata database. In case of database failure, Exadate switch automaticly to the second cluster node. >> Problem : At the switch time, all running maps faile with ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

"auto-refresh" browser functionality on myFileGateway 2.0

Recently, we observed that when downloading a file through myFileGateway, the file is still displayed by the browser and we must refresh the page to don't see the file anymore in the folder, The case TS006115503 inform us that SI doesn't have this...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Increased character limit of Context Data

Currently, Context Data can only contain 10,281 characters. Some requirements and design require more information to be stored in Context Data. Alternate Solution is to store and retrieve from GenericData Configuration, but it complicates the acti...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration