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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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ITX offers DATETIME format conversion. Request a Function/Keyword to convert datetime from one time zone to specified time zone.

Am looking for a new function in ITX to convert datetime from one time zone to another time say. Say if the input is in format(with zone) 2024-07-26T:21:12:00 NZST, and requirement is to convert to CST. TODATETIMEZONE(datetimefield,fromzone,tozone...
19 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to modify public filters

Unable to modify or delete public filters once they are shared. Admin or originator of the public filters should have the ability to modify or delete these public filters. These filters are extremely useful and a edit feature will very helpful.
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Supervisor override capabality

Business is expecting Supervisor override capabality available on Call Center as well so they can perform additional review and validation for certain operation like price override.
3 months ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Functionality already exists

Create the configuration file (bin file) with LCU.bat from an input file

In order to avoid a lot of manual work and administration, we would like to automate the creation of the configuration file (bin file) that is currently done with LCU.bat. For example, with this kind of command: LCU.bat < Config.txt or LCU.bat ...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

CCD should keep track of connection high water mark

One of the ways to license C:D is based on the max number of connections over a given period. However, I'm told that this information is no longer available in CCD. The other option that was mentioned is being able to pull this from C:D directly.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

Reason codes in Important events tab under order line details page should be visible after re-shiping the order line

After reshipping the order line, we are unable to see the reason codes on the order line details page under Important Events tab. We wnated to know how these important events gets populated. Please refer IBM PMR#: TS016070217 - thanks, Avnish
4 months ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Functionality already exists

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Allow optional ODBC connection strings to allow DB connection encryption

My Database team would like to have all connections to the database encrypted, preferably at the application level, using the below: encrypt=true;TrustServerCertificate=false; It is currently not possible to supply this information using the DB Wi...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Unable to Export & Import the configurations from Customization UI page

We have number of configurations managed from Customization UI(such as properties files, custom jar's, custom protocols), we want to have an ability to export all those configurations and import into higher environments. This would help us speed u...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

myfilegateway GUI popup messages

We are using IBM MyFileGateway v1.0 solution for HTTPs file transfer. Our customers are using this portal for upload/download files over HTTPs. Our Internal Business Team raised serious concerns over UI observations/issues which are easily noticea...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Functionality already exists