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Add JDBC importer to Design Studio(Eclipse) or Database interface Designer

The only way to import a typetree for JDBC adapter, is to call an external java command line com.hcl.hip.tools.adapterdriver.TreeImporter for the adapter com.hcl.hip.adapters.m4jdbc. This is not a user friendly solution.
24 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for in app changes

We are looking for a way to be able to log anytime any changes are made ANYWHERE in SEAS with an entry showing what the previous setting was vs the new setting and who made the change. Currently no matter what amout of debug logging is turned on t...
11 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Planned for future release

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

clean old backup file tool

The product should provide a tool to clean old file generated in backup directory following the use of setupfiles.sh. this tool should have option to delete only : file older than <period> file older than <date> files not from the last...
25 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Enable Online Customer Protocol Creations

In order to maintain flexibility of the platform, while reducing the impact of change live Business Processes called by existing protocols, Sterling should allow the creation of new custom protocols online, and not need a full shutdown to take eff...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

The Partner Community Manager CM_CoreProcess has hard coded typing maps which limits our ability to extend functionality of the framework

The latest version of PCM comes with the typing map list in CM_CoreProcess hard coded. This means adding, removing and updating the typing list requires modification of a built in process. Not only will this BP be overwritten in future losing all ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Submitted

MapTrace should be written to memory

Currently, there is no equivalent to the SI Map Translation Report when ITX maps are handled. The MapTrace provides similar information in that it can be used to determine the cause for failure, however it is currently only possible to generated t...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 7 Needs more information