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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
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All ideas

    Request for official support for Oracle Database 26ai with IBM webMethods B2B 12.1

    We would like to request official support and certification for Oracle Database 26ai with IBM webMethods B2B 12.1. The customer intends to use Oracle Database 26ai and contacted IBM Support to confirm whether it is supported. We were informed...
    2 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 3 Submitted

    Enhance REST API Client Adapter to write response payload to Primary Document

    In the current design of the REST API Client Adapter, whenever an HTTP GET request is performed, the server's response payload (typically application/json) is automatically dumped to the local or shared file system. As a result, developers are for...
    about 12 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

    Version Change Enhancement for Config Hub

    Currently, there is no option to change the version directly within Config Hub. To update a Map/Codelist/Envelope to a different version, users must manually download the existing file and then upload it again with the required version. This proce...
    3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Config Hub 1 Under review

    Idea is to display relevant IBM SBCN VAN transfer information on our internal website, enabling continuous monitoring and helping the operations team promptly identify and resolve issues.

    We currently log in to the IBM SBCN VAN to monitor file transfers and investigate any issues that arise. While this process has served us well, we aim to bring key VAN activity and status information to our internal website. This will give our ope...
    about 3 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Submitted

    InFlight 2.0 "Is Empty" search filter option

    InFlight 2.0 filters would be better if for some fields we could use not only the options currently available (Precise match or “contains” and their negative form) but also the “Is Empty” option
    9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 0 Submitted

    Use certificate-based authentication for the CD session establishment

    We have security audit requirement to eliminate our current password-based authentication for CD connections setup.  We have reviewed similar idea documented under CONDIRECTZ-I-74 but even though stated RFE objective was to "Use certificate a...
    about 2 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

    Capability to use Strong Modern Alog to Store password in AUTHFILE

    Currently, Connect:Direct for HP NonStop uses an internal password protection mechanism for storing passwords in the AUTHFILE. But the AUTHFILE password protection mechanism is not equivalent to AES-256 or other modern industry-standard cryptograp...
    about 9 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Submitted

    DB Password to be fetched from Password Safe like HarshiCorp

    Sterling Integrator should retrieve the database password dynamically from a credential vault solution such as HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk. Password rotation performed in the vault should be transparent to the application, without requiring servic...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Submitted

    External Key Vault configuration

    Background & Customer Context: Enterprise clients running or planning to run containerized IBM Sterling workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift (such as Bradesco) can be required by corporate governance to centralize credentials in external vaults (...
    2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

    IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services 6.4 Suport for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.x

    Customer is creating a new environment and it's intent is to have the latest version of CDWS and OS. Customer is using RHEL 10.2 but the documentatio (below) states that the version supported is up do 9.x. Customer needs that CDWS supports at leas...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2

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