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Status Submitted
Categories Usability
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 6, 2024

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning

For example on the typing side users can have 2 setups that both have the same sender, reciever, document type and when cm_coreprocess gets back the results from the typing service, the question is which dataflow to execute

Additionally within a specific dataflow setup, users could have an EDI setup:

sender CUSTOMER1 
reciever IBM 
document type 214

then add in the .+ regex both are valid setups

The ambiguity is which gets executed. The current behavior is the regex gets executed.

This RFE is to request PCM dev team to put out a warning to users - pointing out that a regular expression here will conflict with the EDI rule users have set up already.

Lack of warning to caution users of duplicate setup is a poor design. The RFE is to request PCM dev to address it.

<< This issue was reported in IBM case Portal: TS017015472>>