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Add "Source Reference Number" field in Inflight for document search and reporting purposes

Customer wants IBM to add "Source Reference Number" field in InFlight portal for searching their SAP outbound documents and also make it available in reports (outbound & summary reports). Typically we update "IDOC Number" from translation map ...

Enable New ProcessingFlags 4/5/6 to support complex implementations

We are currently supporting ProcessingFlags 1/2/3 only in GIODE. These processing flags are preserved and passed to down stream flows (from parent to child processes). They are available in rule conditions as well to decide data routing. We would ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Planned for future release

Require sequential number/counter that resets every day

Customer requires a new sequential counter that resets every day. They use this counter in the data content as well as in file names. This counter reset should be configurable based on timezone and accessed by maps as well as routing rules
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Ability to convert TEXT / HTML data to PDF in GIODE flows

We would like to have Text/HTML-to-PDF convertor (PDF Generator) available to be executed as an XProcessor. In other words, any TEXT -or- HTML payload passed to this XProcessor should be converted into PDF format. This will help customers to recei...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Uploading of Test Files to be Optional for IBMers

While uploading a map to Config Hub it is mandatory to upload a valid Input file even in CTE, along with the Source and Compiled map.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

SAPSTAT message generation during Schematron validation step - PEPPOL Flow

Hi Team, This idea is to enable SAPSTAT message generation during Schematron validation step for outbound PEPPOL messages. As per the PEPPOL guidelines, We have enabled PEPPOL validation step for all the PEPPOL outbound messages for the SCBN clien...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Future consideration