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Sterling B2B Integration SaaS

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Increase the field size of the MapList to add new typing map names

Currently there is a field size limitation to the field "MapList" and due to this we are unable to add new typing maps to the existing list. Please increase the size of this field to add new typing maps.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

SFTP Protocol Strict Host Key = 0

Whirlpool is requesting IBM SCBN be able to configure their SFTP connection without strict host key requirement. This is part of their High Availability Architecture plan. All of their vendors except IBM is able to meet this requirement.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Deferred Processing based on number of documents in a file

e have implemented only the time based deferred processing on SCBN with the minimum timeframe of 180 sec and it seems Electrolux now wants us to implement the batching on the basis of the number of documents as well which is not possible to achiev...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 5 Not under consideration

Add option in Config Centre to export codelist data in Excel (xls) format.

Config Center has the option to export codelist data either in XML format or JSON format but not in XLS (Excel). We have request from high volume SCBN customers to provide the codelist data from CTE/Production in excel (xls format) as it would hel...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Functionality already exists

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox.

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox. Currently, customers need to send a separate tickle for each file that resides in the on-prem B2Bi mailbox. This is inefficient and would reduce overh...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

InFlight - Selected Business Views hover updated to include NOT selected in list

Update the "eyeball" hover in InFlight that shows active business views, to include both the selected and de-selected ones, in some differentiated way. Example (the deselected view in this case might be one that is only used to house Managed AS2 v...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

PEPPOL Invoice/Application Response generated via XML validation report using Generic Status option

For PEPPOL Implementation, the Invoice/Application response are generated based on the outcome of the validation service report. The error message from the report is used to put in the Response message back to partner. In current flow, we cannot u...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Validation Service Report should be sent as ERN to Customer

Similar to ERN report we have today in SCBN, the new validation services used for PEPPOL flow do generate error report on failure after running via open library/Schematron. But, these error reports are not sent as ERN. We don't have option to sele...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release