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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...
1 day ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 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 8 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 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 Under review

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
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 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 5 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 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 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 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...

provide access to opensearch-query-workbench.

Query work beanch access would help to write queries and analyze application errors more efficiently. This will allow us to quickly filter and investigate specific errors, correlate issues, and troubleshoot problems more effectively, as writing qu...
3 days ago in Self Service Tool Submitted

Outbound UNG Envelopes must contain the fields 0052 (Message Version Number) and 0054 (Message Release Number) as it is mandatory for some of the critical trading partners like Ford, FCSD

Any supplier of Ford using EDIFACT standard must include it in the Outbound DESADV to Ford.
3 days ago in Self Service Tool Submitted