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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

    Provide a native Inventory Visibility capability to export stock position and supply events as scheduled CSV/flat files in addition to event streams, enabling Data Lake, Databricks, O9, analytics, and reconciliation use cases.

    Why is it useful? IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility currently publishes inventory and supply updates as events. While event-driven integration works well for real-time consumers, many enterprise customers also require periodi...
    2 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

    Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Sterling Secure Proxy

    Quantum computing presents a significant long-term risk to several widely deployed cryptographic algorithms currently used to protect data in transit, including RSA, ECDHE, and DHE, which form the foundation of modern TLS implementations. The imme...
    10 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

    For the consolidateToShipment, having a dedicated UE for only consolidation part

    For the consolidateToShipment, currently there is no dedicated UE for only consolidation part unlike shipment creation has an UE i.e, beforeCreateShipmentUE. The only UE available is beforeConsolidateUE, which gets invoked for both shipment creati...
    about 11 hours ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

    Add new compliance validation maps and type trees that would support NCPDP responses compliance validation for D.0 and F6 standards.

    Add new compliance validation maps and type trees that would support NCPDP responses compliance validation for D.0 and F6 standards. In the current Healthcare pack versions, we do not have the ability to validate NCPDP responses (B1, B2, B3 transa...
    about 22 hours ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Submitted

    Secure + log archive/cleanup

    Currently the Connect Direct Secure + logs for CDW and CDU are added to the log directory on a daily basis. However, there isn't a built-in archive or cleanup utility. While these files are usually small, admins may want to either limit the number...
    2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Prevent Plaintext Passwords from Being Written to Upgrade and Installation Logs During Re-Encryption

    During in-place upgrades of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (for example, upgrading from 6.0.3 or 6.1.1 to 6.2.2), the upgrade process decrypts legacy credentials and re-encrypts them using newer encryption algorithms. As part of this process, the ins...
    7 days 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...
    28 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2

    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 1 month 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 (...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

    Support TAF/TAC for Oracle RAC

    Oracle RAC and ExaCC provide resilience through multiple nodes, and the primary database can fail over between these nodes. Historically, Sterling Integrator has experienced database connection pool exhaustion issues where the Oracle database has ...
    22 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Submitted

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