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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 (...
3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 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...

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...
5 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Submitted

Currently, for 834 files, failures are handled at the ST/SE transaction level, similar to how 270/271 works. • If a file contains multiple ST/SE transaction sets, it can result in a partial success — as long as at least one ST/SE segment has no errors, that portion will go through even if others fail. • However, if the file contains only a single ST/SE, any failure within it will cause the entire ST/SE to fail.Can we have member level validation for 834

Currently, for 834 files, failures are handled at the ST/SE transaction level, similar to how 270/271 works. • If a file contains multiple ST/SE transaction sets, it can result in a partial success — as long as at least one ST/SE segment has no er...
3 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 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...
23 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation Under review

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

TS022478094 - Shipment line qty change having inconsistent behavoir

Introduce a new field called Initial Shipment Quantity that stores the shipment quantity at the time the shipment is created. Unlike the existing Quantity field, this value must remain unchanged if the shipment quantity is modified later. The fiel...
10 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Submitted

Create report that searches all the maps for the codelists they use and provide a downloadable report?

Hi Team — as we transition the Map Search Engine to Config Hub, Currently, we can search by individual codelists and get the list of all the maps using that code list. And the Map Test Tool, will give us all the codelists that a particular map use...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Config Hub Future consideration

Enable full support for ECC-based PGP keys (ECDH/ECDSA/EdDSA) in Sterling B2B Integrator for encryption, decryption, signing, and verification.

Currently, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (including Native PGP) does not support end-to-end usage of ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) keys for PGP operations. This has been confirmed by support in TS022476995. Observed limitations:- ECC keys (ECDH/...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

Enable STDOUT logging for SEAS

We urgently request stdout logging capability for containerized deployments of SSP and SEAS. Currently SSP and SEAS are configured to write logs to filesystem only (PVC), which prevents native container log aggregation on Kubernetes and OpenShift....
10 days ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability Future consideration