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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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Connect:Direct for Zos Suports Object Storage

Connect:Direct for Zos does not support send/receiving files from/to Object Storages. Customers are urging that functionality for AWS and Azure.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Needs more information

Would it be possible to have a pop-up message come up once users Approve exports? Something like "Are you sure you want to update these values in SAP?"

With an increasing number of users, we have had some instances in which unintended data was exported from IBM MIO to SAP. Would it be possible to have a pop-up message come up once users Approve exports? Something like "Are you sure you want to up...
20 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Planned for future release

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 ...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

IBM License Service for containerized B2b +additional Sterling Data Exchange Products

Chief Architect suggested that I open this with B2B, as B2B owns the helm deployment and container. When integrated, ITX, ITXA and B2BI all run in the same container and that container only reports B2BI VPC to the Licensing service. This makes cli...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Please announce the release schedule for the Replacement tool for GPM that removed SI6.2.2 as early as possible.

GPM is a key tool for developing and maintaining Business Processes in Sterling B2B Integrator, and it is a purchasing factor for our customers. The sudden removal of this tool from the product without any prior notice, and the fact that the tool ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for TSS Protected IDs in BATCH

CDZ supports RACF and ACF2 when it comes to PROTECTED IDs, but does not support TSS. Please extend this support to TSS, as TSS implemented PROTECTED in a similar manner to RACF.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration