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A change in the aleclientnw.exe code to handle extended ascii encoding

See tickets for details: TS021255653 , TS020980199

Deployment and Rollback Enhancements

We are requesting the IBM Sterling Integrator (B2Bi) development team to implement an enhanced rollback mechanism for non-outage upgrades in environments consisting of multiple clusters. The current rollback strategy relies on restoring a backup s...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Simplify the JDBC Driver Update Procedure

During a recent database migration, it was necessary to update the JDBC driver used by Sterling Integrator. The procedure to do this is well-documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-update-jdbc-driver-ibm-sterling-b2b-integrator-vers...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

SIP : Network availability API to return node-level availability view

Retailers who use an external Order Management System (OMS) or order sourcing and SIP for inventory visibility / promising, often do not maintain individual node identifiers which is having inventory. In the current model, external systems must ex...
21 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Include Item Custom Attributes in IV events

We are currently using IV events both Delta and Snapshot to publish inventory data across different systems. However, we need to include an identifier in these event outputs to prevent unwanted updates between systems. For example, SystemA should ...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Extensibility Framework for IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising

IBM Sterling Order Management (OMS) provides an extensibility framework and service definition framework that allows users to create bespoke flows using OMS out-of-the-box APIs. This capability is critical for supporting user-specific business flo...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Feature Parity: Implement File Extension Restrictions for Global Mailbox (MYSFG & SFTP)

Currently, the robust file extension filtering mechanism available for traditional Sterling File Gateway (SFG) mailboxes via the disallowExtensionsToUpload property in mailbox.properties does not work for Global Mailboxes across all protocols Ex...
4 months ago in Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Container deployment or upgrade may not work in shared environments

There's been a few cases pointed out where the B2BI/SFG example container scripts for creating SCCs, Cluster Roles, Rolebindings, etc do not work in shared environments. This is interfering with deployments and upgrades in shared environments. In ...

Calculate and publish Inventory Availability Based on Item Assigned Attribute Changes

Existing inventory availability calculations do not automatically adjust to changes in custom item attributes ( ItemAssignedAttribute ) leading to potential inaccuracies in stock levels and order fulfillment. For example, if the department value i...
over 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release