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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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Private Key Authentication for JDBC Connections

Our current Sterling 6.1.2 is connecting to Snowflake DB using JDBC (Snowflake driver) with username/password authentication method. Now, due to security reasons, the Snowflake is enforcing private key authentication (.p8) instead of password. But...
3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Allow Remote Profiles to have two passwords attached (Primary and Backup)

Attempt passwords in order when establishing the remote connection When a password is updated, automatically move the current value to the backup password and set the new value to the primary password. For key-based authentication, allow primary a...
about 6 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Problem Statement: ATP Calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request ship date

Here is the detailed scenario. Problem Statement:ATP calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request Ship date. ​ IV- ATP Calculation – Additional Scenarios​ Current Date: 25 July 2025 (Day 1) & Consider Future...
4 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Allow workflow approvers to edit the record and send back to the user.

Our workflow approvers often catch slight tweaks that need to be performed to a record that lands in their inbox, often dealing with MRP settings. (For example, maybe the requestor put an item on planned order instead of automatic replenishment.) ...
2 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

OMEnvironment — propertyRef parameter ignored

In Omenvironment propertyRef is not working in customer overrides property section in server properties .When I checked with IBM support they told that currently propertyRef parameter supports only for environment variable in server properties par...
3 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Simplify the JDBC Driver Update Procedure

During a recent database migration, it was necessary to update the JDBC driver used by Sterling Integrator. The procedure to do this is well-documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-update-jdbc-driver-ibm-sterling-b2b-integrator-vers...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Cleanly handle EBICS Requests with no post data or methods other than POST

Customers regularly receive requests to the EBICS URL which have no post data. This causes the EBICS handler BP to throw a NULL document error creating noise in the logs and meaning the BP fails. Sometimes this is just an error but often the EBICS...
25 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Using Generic Inbound GS and ST Envelopes

We have data that comes in with multiple GS ID values for the senders. If one of those GS envelope IDs is not included in ITX-A, the entire payload fails with a missing envelope entry. We need to process all the valid envelopes and not process the...
15 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted