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SAP ALE Adapter - Support Connecting to Load Balanced SAP Environment

IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS platform does not support connecting to load balanced SAP environment using ALE connections today. We need changes to the existing JCo properties to enable this support. This should benefit all IBM Sterling B2B In...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Under review

Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
20 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Enable Deeplink into Order Hub

Similar to IBM legacy call center we would like to have the capabilities to deeplink into Orer hub pages.
27 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Under review

Control Center Monitor should alert us when connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server

We want to be alerted by Control Center Monitor if connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server.
12 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...

Limit number of alerts for same BP failure

We have set up an alert that sends an email for a Business Process that is processed with errors. At a given time, there may be thousands of failures for the same BP, and we do not want to receive emails for each and every failure of the same kind.
26 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Perimeter Server Monitoring

Please add alerting in Control Center Monitor if Perimeter Server/Servers is/are down when SI comes back up. Currently there are events generated if Perimeter Server goes from enabled to disabled status and connected to disconnected status when SI...
29 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Ability to remove a CD Node and ALL references to it in other Netmaps etc with the click of a button.

Removing an unused CD Node can take hours of manual changes to remove all entries in other netmaps etc