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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 (...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

OpenTelemetry (OTel) Metrics and Traces Support

Sterling Control Center Monitor currently supports exporting events as OpenTelemetry (OTel) log signals to an OTel Collector. Request to extend the existing OTel integration to support metrics and traces signals in addition to logs. This would ena...
about 8 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other Submitted

New APIs call for B2B

These two APIs are currently restricted to calls originating from the WMIO website. Please make them officially supported for external access so that they can be consumed by other applications: 1. /b2b/rules?sort=%2Bordinal&pageSize=50&pag...
about 17 hours ago in webMethods B2B SaaS Submitted

Search results page in Order Hub should have an option to download/export result set as file

There was a similar idea - https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/OH-I-2 which is delivered for OMoC users and not for DIY helm deployment model although the expectation was it would be released for everyone. This feature would be useful in Order hub - To ex...
1 day ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Submitted

When a certificate is already generated, it doesn't allow another one to be created. This will likely cause business disruption during certificate renewal. As we will have to remove the current one, create a new one, send to partner for them to install. Is there a recommendation or steps we are missing in making the renewal seamless?

To avoid business disruption during certificate renewal
2 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS Submitted

Provide configuration for Edge Based Route in SEAS Helm Chart

Currently, SEAS creates OpenShift routes using passthrough termination. If a customer wants to use edge termination, they must manually modify the route template provided with the product. Our request is to provide a supported configuration option...

Control DB pool ephemeral ports from B2Bi

We should ideally be able to define port range to be used by DB pools. Currently it takes any random port available which is cumbersome and we have had times where we had run into issues due to this. [siadmin@ediapp01pakr logs]$ netstat -antp | gr...
3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other Submitted

Add support for both TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 together in same SSL configuration

Adding support for both TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 in the same SSL configuration allows clients to automatically negotiate the highest protocol version they support. This provides a smooth transition to TLS 1.3 while maintaining compatibility with existi...
10 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Submitted

Enhance ITX MMap Execution Control with Native Timeout, Safe Termination and External Process Lifecycle Management

Using IBM ITX 11.0.2 (MMap / mpiMapRun) in a high-throughput AKS environment. Lifecycle: load -> run -> abort (if needed) -> wait -> unload Issues observed: abortRun() does not guarantee termination unload() cannot run during execu...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs Submitted

Enhanced mapping filters in Config Hub

Filters for config hub maps are extremely limited. Top tabs should have choices to list both deployed or undeployed maps, filters should enable limiting by resource creating/updating map, last update/create date range, possibly inbound/outbound, p...
28 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation Under review