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Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
9 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add check Box to show default rules in BPN

BPN does not have the capability of checking the default rules created for a specific customer business alias.If a checkbox is added, the Implementer/PER/Support teams will be able to easily identify the default rules created for the customer. It ...
2 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Check box to enable or disable rules by selecting multiple rules at a time

Implementer needs to go to each and every rule to either enable or disable them during testing or production move, by adding this new feature in BPN tool, we can select the similar kind of rules (by rule set, rule names,....) which allows us to se...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Additional attribute fileds for INBOX view in sterling document tracking

Request to add additional attribute fields for INBOX view in sterling document tracking to have more searchable fields based on on the business data logging. Currently, IBM sterling is having only one attribute field available in INBOX view to fil...
2 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Document Tracking 3 Needs more information

InFlight - Add Protocol Process ID as an addable column on search page

Adding Protocol Process ID as a visible, searchable field in the results page would allow isolation of traffic by connection for easier troubleshooting. This would be beneficial for both clients and support, and seems like it should be easy to imp...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Functionality already exists

In-Flight Multi-file download button

This will effect all front-line support, mapping and any other support agents using In-flight. Right now, in order to download all files attached to a transmission, the agents have to manually download one by one. If it's possible, adding a downlo...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Inflight - EDIT option for updating the Trading Partner Names

We are adding the Names in Inflight for New Client ID and Partner ID. When we want to change the display of names, we need to delete and need to create again. Right now we have an option of ADD & DELETE only, If we have an Option of EDIT for T...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Download more than 10,000 lines in InFlight at a time

For billing each month, we are required to pull our own report in InFlight for the amount of documents processed for each month. Currently we are only able to download 10,000 lines at a time into an excel spreadsheet. It is very time consuming to ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Document Tracking 0 Planned for future release

Add Data Delay and Outage Notifications to InFlight application

Currently client notifications for Data Delays or Communication Outages are provided via a notification system that sends emails or voice messages to a configured distribution list for each account. It would be helpful if these notifications could...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Not under consideration