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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...
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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Support for Mac M1/M2 users running OnPrem containers.

On Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10Fix Pack: 37 (10.0.2209.2) When running the Fixpack 37 in the local docker environment, the SMCFS container is getting terminated with error code 255. While investigating the issue, found that this is due to running...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

OMS Kubernetes Deployment - Add Labels

In the containerized version of OMS, the pods themselves have Kubernetes attributes called Labels, which allows us to filter by them during deployment (for example, to deploy only those whose "role" is "agentserver". However, Kubernetes has a Reso...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Basic Auth for Order Hub API calls to OMS

Currently our OnPrem OMS implementation works based of Basic Auth for external applications to connect with OMS. We are trying to enable Order Hub and we noticed that it is using JWT Auth for all API calls after initial login with Basic Auth. We a...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

BPN Rule duplicate validation to avoid conflict in different files handling.

GISHI Orcharstration System does not have the validation to cross verify the duplication of existing rules, due to that, Implementation or Support Team creating the new duplicate rules for handling Customer or Partner new enhancements and it cause...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create Alerts in IBM Call Center for Commerce using HTML formatting instead of plain text.

We use alerts as a workflow system to report tasks to particular areas of the contact center to assist customers. The agents will copy and paste from a resource guide web page with the details they need to capture, having the format in HTML allows...
11 months ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Support for Microsoft Windows 2022

My Customer needs to implement Connect:Express in Microsoft Windows 2022. However, we have support for Microsoft Windows 2019 not 2022.
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Excel Adapter - When importing an Excel spreadsheet. Use the first Row as the Column Names.

When importing an Excel Spreadsheet as a type tree, the importer creates a type tree with Generic Names : ie . COLA COLB..... If the importer can have an option to use the first ROW as the Column Names, then when the type tree is created, the Colu...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Change Request Reporting data capture

As part of Change Request Project - Report data capture was not included - Client has been on the Solution for 6 months - client requestors and management request reporting capability that has been partially addressed within the product as a mass ...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Protection/Unprotect from Bulk

During project client had "protected" one field for hundreds of items - which when they came over to MRO - they are still "Protected", but now they want to remove the protection and asking if this can be done via the bulk features. It was noted th...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration