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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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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
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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.
1 day ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

Support IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS run on IBM i 7.6

In April 2025, IBM released version 7.6 of IBM i, the successor to IBM i 7.5.However, we have been informed by the Offering Manager that, at this time, there are no plans to support IBM i 7.6 for IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS, which has hi...
26 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 5 Future consideration

Configuring Inventory Snapshot in store local time

Currently we have configured different stores at different time in UTC by converting Local store time to UTC. But during day light savings we are required to reconfigure it again. To prevent reconfiguring the Inventory Snapshot during day light sa...
about 2 hours ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Submitted

To remove the specific ZipCodes entries from YFS_ZIP_CODE_LOCATION table

We have a requirement to remove some specific ZipCodes from YFS_ZIP_CODE_LOCATION table. So, we followed the following documents and steps: - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/order-management?topic=application-updating-additional-sql-data We tried to...
2 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

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...
13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Support for HMAC-signed JWT (JWS using shared secret) in Sterling OMS

Sterling OMS is often integrated to external systems at various touchpoints of order lifecycle. External systems publish asynchronous feedback or order updates through Webhooks to registered systems using multiple security options. Using HMAC sign...
6 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Resolve inconsistencies in security implementation across OMS suite components (SIP, OMS, and related services)

SIP SaaS (IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising): mTLS is not supported as per IBM documentation. Webhooks use OAuth2 with client credentials (client ID + secret) for token generation. Typical use case: publishing inventory/availability updates to ex...
6 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Expose Kafka Config Parameters in SIP Container Environment

We request IBM to expose and allow configuration of the following parameters in the SIP container environment. While we understand IBM’s concern regarding potential application performance impact, these parameters do not always behave uniformly ac...
6 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Lookup inventory by location takes long

When lookup inventory is done by location, we are seeing a lot of latency (upto 20 mins!) when fetching a location which has 36k SKUs.
9 days ago in Store Engagement / Performance 1 Under review

Put away multiple SKUs to one location

Today, when stores receive cartons, there are multiple SKUs within a single carton. We are doing put away at carton level to reduce the time spent by the store users. As more often than not, all SKUs in the carton go to single destination location...
9 days ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

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