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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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Connect:Direct limitation retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories.

Connect:Direct has a known limitation when retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories. If you attempt to retrieve ( GET ) a file located in a specific subfolder within a bucket (e.g., /folder1/file), and the user does not have permission to ac...
21 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Under review

S3 support for Linux on Power.

I would like to kindly request that S3 support be extended to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct versions running on Power systems. Many of our clients use Power platforms and are in need of this feature to meet their integration requirements.

Ability to invoke Data Enrichment API calls during the translation mapping flow in SaaS

Process Inbound Purchase order based on the lookup value(N1 02) API call to Customer backend and get inventory details based on the location for further processing the order.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

AWS S3 adapter to do multipart upload to support files larger than 5GB

AWS S3 Adapter by default does NOT support multipart upload. So any files, as of today, which are >5GB fail to upload to S3. It fails, with "Exception occurred - Failed to commit transaction: Your proposed upload exceeds the maximum allowed siz...
29 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Under review

Create Code List via API

Currently we have the ability to update the code lists partially or fully. However, the create and update can be done once the code list is manually created in ConfigHub. The requirement is the ability to create the code lists via API. We can have...
10 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Under review

InFlight API - request to filter by Business Alias

This a request for an enhancement to the current API for retrieving tracking details from InFlight. Specifically, we would like to introduce the ability to filter by Business Alias. Currently, the API retrieves the Business Alias in the response b...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

User based data limit policy

When the same data limit policy is applied to various users, the inbound traffic byte counter is the sum of all the users included in the policy. So if one of them is reaching the limit. All the users of the policy are affected. Please, conside...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Under review

Mailbox delete should mark all mailbox data for deletion

Customer urgently needs the mailbox delete options shown in the attached image to delete all data associated with the mailbox entry. Some data is being marked for deletion, but not everything. They need all data associated with that mailbox entry ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance / Usability 1 Under review

Restart documents functionality in Document tracking Tool

Why it is useful : Document tracking tool is visibility tool for clients and IBM support for viewing documents processing through VAN. If customer needs to restart any file they send to partners , which failed at IBM system may be partner system u...
23 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Under review