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Automation of In-Place Node Renames -- CDU/CDW

Various application teams are approaching us for Connect:Direct high availability architecture guidance and advice -- or have decided to strengthen their C:D architecture -- after initial software installation. This is resulting in hundreds of CDW...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Inflight - Search box for Trading Partner Names

We have 1000+ TP Names for few clients like Electrolux, Ceva etc. in inflight NA & EU. We need to search the TP names using the browser search box. Instead of searching through browser box, we can introduce a search box in Trading Partner Name...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

ValidateItem flag behavior same as PROD items even for PS/DS service item types

For a business requirement, don't want to have a defined PS item in OMS but still want to proceed with order creation and fulfillment. To achieve this, tried using a flag given by Product called ValidateItem as N at OrderLine level during order cr...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

BPN still have decommissioned translation POD's available under Target System drop down

BPN CTE and Production still have decommissioned translation POD's available under Target System drop down like POD 16, POD 20 till POD37.which sometimes create flow issues as these PODs are no longer available. If these decommissioned translation...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Allow conversion of mapped fields as PDF

To preserve integrity of the generated data contents, businesses are increasingly reliant on PDF documents to improve document readability (due to fixed formatting) and integrity. Secondary concept / objective: To generate a standard PEPPOL e-...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Allow duplicate 997's to create SAP Status Message instead of failing

Today in SCBN, if a partner resends a 997or sends a new 997 for an already acknowledged document, and the 997 is used to generate a status message back to SAP, the process fails. SCBN should allow for SAP Status messages to be generated and sent t...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Not under consideration

For AS2 Configuration allow using file names when using mailboxes, the same way you can use file names when using file system directories.

Document ID is sending as file name with .txt extension via AS2 Connection. Partner need *.edi file like we have in Message Name. Message Name is *.edi but client is getting file with Document ID++*.txt.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Monitor Aspera Nodes

It would be great idea if we can have monitoring enabled for Aspera Nodes and secure proxy, the reason I would say is as Aspera provides one of the MFT solution which enables us to transfer huge data and since it has the ability to do so lot of or...
12 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Provide Select all button to export resources from Config Center UI

Currently there is no single button to select all of the resources to be exported ( for example, envelopes/maps. We need to select page by page which is limited to 100.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration