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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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    Ability to send SNMP trap data to different SNMP hosts

    A client/user of our IBM Control Center environment has asked that we send snmp trap data for file alerts to their splunk server for reporting. What I've noticed is that if we do this, any other alerts with snmp trap selected in actions will also ...
    2 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Align Retention of Filter/Search Criteria Functionality Across Code List/Mapping/Transformations/Connections for Consistent Behavior

    Currently when using the Search Bar in Code List/Mapping/Transformations, the functionality is inconsistent across all three. Search in Mapping (partial or full name search) then click into any of the maps that come up to review it.  To go ba...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 2 Under review

    Request Oauth 2.0 Modern Authentication support for SMTP Send Adaptor

    Our business, KraftHeinz, legacy SMTP Relay will be deprecated by the end of 2026. We need to transition to Modern Authentication for SMTP prior to that.
    3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Submitted

    Show the filename in the Job report within Configuration Hub

    When troubleshooting or reviewing completed jobs, it would be helpful to see the filename that was used for the job. The "Job specifics report" could show the filename.
    26 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Submitted

    Externalizing initparm.cfg configuration Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

    In IBM Connect:Direct containerized deployments running on OpenShift, the initparm.cfg file is generated exclusively during the installation phase and is not designed for dynamic updates. As a result, configuring or modifying integrations with clo...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

    Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

    As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
    3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 7 Future consideration

    MFA for B2B dashboard (Other Sterling Products)

    Would be nice to have MFA capability for the B2B dashboard (and other Sterling products like SEAS/SSP/) for the internal administrators without having to configure something through SSP and SEAS. Looking for a way to do MFA for internal users as t...
    5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

    Allow Concurrent Access to FileAgent rules. if not lock the access until rules are applied

    Integrated file Agent allows concurrent access for multiple users which mean rules or config can be overwritten. Enhancement request is to either Allow safe concurrent access where user wont trip on each other rules If that is not possible, at...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Under review

    Add Change Description/Comments on imports completed through Jobs

    When using the Jobs import process to load a new version of a map or code list, there needs to be a Change Description/Comment option to be able to put in details or a case#
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Submitted

    Support for Arbitrary User ID in IBM Connect:Direct Container Images

    Modify the Connect:Direct container image to enable running it with a random UID. OpenShift Security Context Constraints (SCCs) assign random user IDs at runtime while maintaining group ID 0 (root group) for security purposes. This security model...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

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