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Adding Email Body via BPN ST tool

There are lot of request in Electrolux project for email flows where we need to deliver the output file as attachment in email and also send email body with some message to the trading partners. Currently, we use ITX map and Attachment Macro to ac...
9 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Future consideration

ICC Support of SMTP with SSL/TLS encryption

Most modern SMTP Service require SMTP/s to leverage their services. IBM B2Bi supports this but ICC does not. This makes it hard to find an SMTP service that meets or clients email needs.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

SFO to consider the ad hoc/unplanned node delays during optimization

The ad hoc delays need to be captured in SFO as separate parameter in order to account, longer processing time to ship the orders from the nodes during and post a sale event or, shortage in the manpower leading to delays. The ad-hoc delays need to...
4 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

ITXA - Need SWIFT standards releases 2019-2022 and the ability for the TPUI to select the version in the STANDARD VERSION envelope parameter

SWIFT Network is validating from the 2021 Standards. Today, ITXA is only offering 2018 Standards compliance. SWIFT financial documents are exchanged by banks via the SWIFT Network vs going Peer to Peer to exchange. SWIFT Network requires the curre...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other / Trading Partner UI 0 Planned for future release

Ability to edit/change the SFG partner community

Currently there is no way to edit or change the SFG partner community once it is created within a community. It will be really helpful if there is an option to make that change from within the SFG UI.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Bulk download of orders and orderlines from Optimizer Explainer

The current Optimizer Explainer does not a have an option to export the orders, order lines and node details to be exported to an external template for further review and analysis, the limitations lead to the following challenges. Difficulty in id...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Planned for future release

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect