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Sterling B2B Integration SaaS

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Track Rule IDs being used for Document flows in Inflight Event details section for RPA usage

Currently the implementation and support teams rely on BPN Support Tool to investigate/troubleshoot document flows in production. After looking at the document in question in Inflight, a support personnel takes the Process ID /date time frame and ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Job Status >>> Job Item Summary enhancement for failed codelist due to duplicate entries

We have request from customers like VF Services to update new codelist entries (more then 100 +) for an already existing codelist . For such request Support/PER/Implementer would normally take the back up of the existing codelist (XML) and merge t...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Legacy Inflight to have search option based on User ID for protocols (FTP/SFTP/AS2ID/HTTP/OFTP2(SSID/SFID))

We have request from high volume customers like VF Services/Ceva etc requesting for change in the protocol relationship as the partner has moved to other service provider/change in the protocol url's or moving from one protocol to other like (FTP ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Enhance your automated email on a VAN Failure transmission to us

We sometimes receive emails entitled: "IBM Sterling Information Broker Services (System Notification) - Message Undeliverable".The email tells us something went wrong sending a message from someone to someone. It lacks any useful information to he...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Not under consideration

[Copy] Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

ASN timeliness issue corrective action during VAN outage

We recently had a Sterling VAN outage where all our ASNs were delayed to our Customers. This caused the timeliness issue and we received penalty. We can avoid it if either of below two solution is implemented in Inflight.1. Once a VAN outage is de...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Filtering Inbound & Outbound Rules based on the Inflight Direction Field by adding Checkbox or Dropdown box

We can check the flow (inbound or outbound) based on the rulename or the Inflight Direction Field. There is no option to filter the inbound and outbound rules in BPN
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Consideration of BPN Field's : MapList1, MapList2, MapList3 for adding more Mapnames

We have a BPN Field: MapList which accepts only 256 Characters. We need to consider the new BPN Fields: MapList1, MapList2, MapList3 etc. in future for adding the mapnames when one of the MapList field has more than 256 characters.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add version manager for BPN rules and version change history(Salesforce Case number) as searchable field

Existing: Current BPN rules(specific to a customer) does not have any unique name(like partner name or anything unique)which troubleshooter can use to collect/trace all rules where message can pass to. Required: As we have version manager for...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration