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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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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

improve house cleaning efficiency

We at FEPOC has been using this product together with ITXA and ITX since 2019. The issue here is that the house cleaning jobs are not keeping up with the high volume we process every day. See the detail word document in support ticket TS018931836....
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 5 Planned for future release

Confighub – Business Alias Name Not Displayed in Code Lists and Maps

Currently, we have several customers where identical code lists and maps are deployed across multiple Business Aliases (BAs) under the same customer account. This setup creates confusion for both customers and support teams, as it becomes difficul...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Planned for future release

Configurable Order Grouping by Ship-To Address in B2B Contract Automatic Order Generation

In the current B2B Contract Orders module, automatic sales orders are generated based on recurrence plans. When orders are created for a given day, all contract lines sharing the same Order Date are grouped into a single sales order, even if the l...
25 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

Support for Capturing Additional Attributes at Ship-To Address Level in B2B Contract Recurrence Plans

The current B2B Contract Orders module supports automatic creation of sales orders based on recurrence plans and delivery schedules. As previously proposed (https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/OH-I-288), there is a need to support additi...
25 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement request for MassLiveSync agent in full sync mode to fetch data for a given date range

Currently we know MassLiveSync Agent works in 3 modes, 1. unindexed - Fetch records having YFS_ORDER_HEADER.INDEX_VERSION=null 2. full - Fetch all records from YFS_ORDER_HEADER table 3. versionsync - Fetch only records which are having YFS_ORDER_H...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Planned for future release

Sterling Secure Proxy to sign Login SAML request

Presently IBM Sterling Secure proxy sends a SAML request to external Idp using SSO Configuration in SSP. The Login SAML request is not adding the signature but the logout request is adding the signature in SAML request from SSP. From our security ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement request for creating multiple Writable Indices per Month for Order Service

Current Order Service (OS) architecture restricts data ingestion to a single writable index per calendar month. Given our high-volume customer requirements of processing upwards of 3 million orders monthly (including sales, returns and purchases)—...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release