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Sterling Supply Chain Business Network

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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

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...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Communication Protocols 1 Not under 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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 0 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
almost 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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enable Bulk Download of EDI Source Documents

The current process in IBM Sterling Inflight allows users to download individual EDI source documents from the transaction detail view. This works fine for individual file testing and reviews. An option to select multiple transactions and download...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Support Wild Card DDE setups and Allow executing Basic Deferred as Preprocessor

Problem Statement: Issue # 1 - Deferred Enveloping (DDE) in SPE is not supporting WILD CARD setups today . It is expecting us to define sender/receiver/ala with definitive values. Config Center UI allows us to configure wild carded setups, but the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Future consideration

BPN Rules levels with "Default with condition / Last preference with condition" option

We know the Default option in the BPN ST rules has the last preference when conditions are not matched. If we can have an extra option "Default with the condition" which works similarly to the "Default" option but it checks the condition. If still...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 1 Not under consideration

Change length of time before documents are archived or inlcude more details in archived data

Current, data is archived after just a month, we have a need to view the data fully for longer as our standard customer terms for invoicing is 90 days
about 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Tracking variables [PF1, Pf2 etc] in Inflight Event Details

The variables [like ProcessingFlag1/Flag2/Flag3 etc] for each transaction are being set either at the BPN ST rule level or Map or both. At present, the Event details for the Sucess/Error messages don't have these values tracked in Inflight. Is t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Not under consideration