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Add DR profile when primary doesn't work

Provide feature to add disaster recovery(DR) IPs by various partners for their primary sites while we setup sftp or other protocol remote profiles while configuring the profile. As on date, there is no way for SFG to setup so that the disaster rec...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced messaging for various message states within job log to allow automation

Today - the only way to verify message processing is to log into Connect:Direct and check the current status. We would like it when messages go into the various states (specifically a wait state) for a message to put but out to the started task jo...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Ability to setup Node Capacity for a ship node by item type

A Retailer broadly classifies their products into two types - Soft line - Clothing, shoes etc. Big Ticket - Electronics, Appliances etc. Because the effort to pick/pack/ship these product type is different, the capacity for each ship node to handl...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Update SI to support the latest version of GnuPG using the provided CLA2CMD Adapter (RTC 584840)

Currently Sterling Integrator supplied GnuPG Adapter supports PGP V2.0. This has been depreciated on 31st December 2017. The newest versions (currently 2.2.16) fail to work (see RTC 584840) with the internally supplied cla2cmd adapter.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Not under consideration

Feature to close bulk PEM Portal and Provisioner Activities

Currently, each activity or rollout has to be manually and separately closed. During development, Unit Testing, and UAT cycles lots of activities are created. There should be a way in PEM to bulk close Portal and Provisioner activities based on fi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Option to exclude MAILBOX messages from PurgeAll.sh

We run SI as stateless, but use MAILBOX for B2B communication. We clean up SI once every quarter to improve the performance / response time. The clean up process becomes cumbersome because we have to make sure all MAILBOX messages are backed up un...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Add System Acknowledgment status generated off an outbound communication protocol result

In line with the current System Acknowledgment solution around sending a message back for an outbound transaction with the translation status (SYSACK1) and processing a functional Acknowledgement back from a trading partner for the corresponding o...
11 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Communication Protocols 0 Not under consideration

Allow Pallet Receiving

The application currently supports receiving at the shipment level and container level, only leaving out pallet. The reason is not clear. Receiving should be allowed at all levels.
5 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Supporting AUTH TLS for FTPS Port 21

Enable AUTH TLS on FTPS Transfer. Current version of SI 6.1.2 doesn't support AUTH TLS. This was a request from an external vendor to enable AUTH TLS for secured transfer.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. A sample message can be provided if needed. Can the nex...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration