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A feature which will allow BA to move from one company to another company.

Hello, The main idea behind opening of this RFE request:- Due to some companies being sold to other SCBN customers companies merging into a single contract. Reconfiguring the entire BA manually under a different company can lead to any errors that...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding / Other 2 Needs more information

Confirm Shipment accounting for PO ordering unit of measure

Idea Summary: Currently, Confirm Shipment is failing when the ASN is sent by the supplier in the PO ordering UOM and the API is not doing the conversion from the item ordering unit of measure to the item inventory unit of measure. The idea is to h...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Needs more information

Database for IV

Need a read only database to connect to that shows all supply and demand records, quantities, ship nodes, sourceTs, segment info, etc. from IV. This will help with data cleanup and visibility. We have no way of knowing about stale data unless we q...
about 1 month ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Needs more information

Move Distinct Values to Item View

i think Distinct Values is the one of the most used buttons, moving it would save user on performing two clicks
16 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Needs more information

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information

Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Needs more information

Conditional Runtask/Runjob

We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Needs more information

Audit Trail (2/4): accessing audit data in the back end

When accessing the SCIS TS solution with our login, and using the Graphical User Interface, we cannot see the origin of data. We would like to be able when clicking, through the standard GUI, on a product/document/event/facility to see the date/ti...
3 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Needs more information

Revoking a shared data authorization

We need a way to apply changes to the shared data status with the "interested parties" feature. Some data can be shared for a time then revoked later when a partnership between organization has ended.
3 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Needs more information