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Enable Config Hub UI to Select the Core System Map 'bldvda' in Outbound VDA Envelope for IBMers Only

VDA 4913 Outbound Interchange Header 711 version 03 vs 02 issue. Config Hub currently has Outbound envelope limitation issue which could create a blockage for future VDA onboardings for current and future clients. According to a current client req...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

File Encoding Not Properly Reflected in InFlight UI

The "Encoding" option in the InFlight UI currently displays "default," which does not provide meaningful information to the user. As a result, users must download the file, open it in a text editor such as Notepad++, and manually check the actual ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 3 Under review

New DGADNTLD PARM=SYNTAX

Requesting DGADNTLD parameter called SYNTAX. This should be similar to the $$SYNTAX option for updating Netmaps. We would like to be able to syntax check our new netmap source code before actually trying to load it into the NETMAP VSAM file. This ...
4 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Under review

Provide an option to view the screens using the MS Edge (Java) User Interface (IU) in a 'COMPACT' format to reduce the large amount of white space currently on the screen.

It would be very useful for anyone using the Java UI for Sterling Connect Direct to see more information at once instead of scrolling up and down just to see one piece of information.It would be especially useful using the 'STATISTICS' enquiry bec...
6 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Under review

Audit logging to support PCI requirements of ADMIN users and their ACTIONS

From a PCI perspective our people want Audit logging of whenever a user with ADMIN rights updates something in Connect:Direct whether via Secure+ or in the NETMAP or the Functional Authorities or Initparams. Whatever an ADMIN has rights to update,...
12 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Under review

Ability to invoke Data Enrichment API calls during the translation mapping flow in SaaS

Process Inbound Purchase order based on the lookup value(N1 02) API call to Customer backend and get inventory details based on the location for further processing the order.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Have option to skip retry for selected HTTPS codes on the APIM UI

Have option to skip retry for selected HTTPS codes on the APIM UI
19 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 2 Under review

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

InFlight API - request to filter by Business Alias

This a request for an enhancement to the current API for retrieving tracking details from InFlight. Specifically, we would like to introduce the ability to filter by Business Alias. Currently, the API retrieves the Business Alias in the response b...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Limit number of alerts for same BP failure

We have set up an alert that sends an email for a Business Process that is processed with errors. At a given time, there may be thousands of failures for the same BP, and we do not want to receive emails for each and every failure of the same kind.
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 5 Under review