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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...
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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Should be able to import ED25519 format remote SFTP host keys

This functionality would allow B2B Integrator to manage SFTP file transfer activities with trading partners who are using ED25519 format remote host keys.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 7 Planned for future release

Need SSL/TLS support for Global Mailbox to post its events to Control Center

Most other connections are firmly secured in B2Bi/SFG/GM, with one significant exception; the ability to post events and heartbeats from Global Mailbox to Control Center (ICC or CCM). By default, CCM 6.2 disables its non-secure web port, 58082. Si...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Add Data Delay and Outage Notifications to InFlight application

Currently client notifications for Data Delays or Communication Outages are provided via a notification system that sends emails or voice messages to a configured distribution list for each account. It would be helpful if these notifications could...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Ability to reset data in non prod environments.

It would be great if IBM could provide the ability to reset the data in Sterling IV or the ability to roll back to an older data snapshot. This will help the clients a lot. Right now, we are asked to use APIs to do it, which is not efficient and...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Planned for future release

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Add Description field to API for Windows netmap add

The API in Connect:Direct Web Services does not allow for a 'Description' field when using the API for netmap adds. For Windows, it requires a separate API to accomplish this. The API for UNIX netmap adds has the Description field, so having the f...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Download more than 10,000 lines in InFlight at a time

For billing each month, we are required to pull our own report in InFlight for the amount of documents processed for each month. Currently we are only able to download 10,000 lines at a time into an excel spreadsheet. It is very time consuming to ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Planned for future release

Automated Reports for Success and Failure Stats from IBM Sterling

Currently, we have to manually generate the reports by extracting the data from Sterling Inflight as per steps below.We access https://na.inflight.b2b.ibmcloud.com/ to get both reports. Business view preference is set to be Whirlpool XMLAccount -&...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Planned for future release

MSQL JDBC drivers 10.2.0 and higher support for Sterling B2B Integrator.

Need IBM Sterling B2B Integrator support for MSQL JDBC drivers 10.2.0 and higher. The driver have an additional pair of parameters that designate the retry connection between in the event the database connection is broken or failover. https://lear...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Planned for future release

security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true needs to be added into the security.properties.in file

per IBM - There is a technote that indicates security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true be added to the customer_overrides specifically to ignore OID errors caused by certificates with attributes not supported by the Certicom jar files which SI use...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release