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Sterling Supply Chain Business Network

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Request for Close all button in SPE Config:Center

The recent hyperlinking to the Next envelope name is very useful in Config Center. However, for validating one transaction set (Ex: X12 850: ST-GS-ISA 3 envelopes). I end up opening 6 windows as shown in the attached image and 6 times I need to cl...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Not under consideration

Ability to see all maps associated with a specific code list

We would like to be able to request a report to see which maps are assocated to specific code list.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Future consideration

Increase max lenght for Direct Connection input fields - InFlight Protocol setups

We have situations where Trading Partners want to host direct connections like FTP, FTPs, and SFTP. Currently InFlight limits the user name field to 25 characters. We are now encountering partners that insist on using user names longer than this l...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Update ExtraInfo1 Information using Rule Assignment to display in the Inflight document tracking

Currently, We can update sender/receiver/document type/reference number information using rule assignments to display in the Inflight document tracking. But we don't have any direct assignment in the rule to update ExtraInfo1 information. Currentl...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Document Tracking 6 Future consideration

Maintain Rule versions/version manager for routing rules created under BPN support Tool

Many process flows is designed using BPN support tool. Currently if a rule is modified/updated, The only way is to search the rule update by audit logs and manually revert back the values incase there is a processing issue. Many rules are being up...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Add a column in the EDI Searching files results as ISA Control Number into InFlight

Refugio Granados Bustos (Customer)Dec 20, 2021, 18:08 I want to see the ISA control number after the search result, but all the columns are referring to another things (Status, Date/Time, Type, Sender, Receiver, Reference, etc etc)...see the scree...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network 0 Future consideration

SFTP known host key fetch through Legacy InFlight instead of POD

Currently we do not have option to fetch known host key while setting up SFTP profile on Legacy InFlight although it is mandatory to import it to profile in order to connect to partner's SFTP. Right now procedure we follow is to fetch the knowhost...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add feature in the SPE to list outbound ST, GS envelopes based on ISA IDs.

We have got requests sometimes from customer asking to list their SAP Sold to ID Codes based on the ISA IDs. These IDs/TP codes will be SAP Sold to customer ID numbers which will usually be ST envelope's receiver ID. In SPE, for outbound envel...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Give Access to view related maps of a codelist

this will be useful on the support end for ceva, as we would be able extract related maps of a specific codelist without logging a ticket/ case. having this function it will save time for the support
about 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Change BPN Config Center initial page to have only searchbox, not list of customers

Initial page in Config Center attempts to build a list of customers, and this list can be quite lengthy. There is a search box but it cannot be used until the list build is complete. I feel that just a search box that could be immediately used wou...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 1 Not under consideration