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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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Send record length and block size larger than 4050 on HPNS Connect Direct

The record size when it worked was BLK Size = 27944 and RECL = 3992 it was changed to BLK SIZE = 21742 RECL= 10871 and then the job fail to completed and abend in NDM
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 8 Future consideration

Improving the IBM B2Bi Sterling Integrator logic when a system certificate expires

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator product does not seamlessly pick up or scan the system (netmap or adapters) for a new/valid certificate after a CA expires. As an IBM customer and a long term B2B Sterling Integrator consumer, on two separate occasions...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
14 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Projected Demand Widget

Our clients have been asking for this functionality independently and every time they see Change Request module they ask "can a user submit a forecast? that can be updated in the record?" Currently that is not possible.
11 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Export of Trading Partner list to a file

We need an export functionality in IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Hub > My company > Trading partners to easily get the complete list of the TP IDs and their corresponding names. The exported file from here is to be used to feed into our ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 4 Future consideration

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

be able to schedule the deployment of a map/ envelope

We are used to receive requests to move map, envelope or code lists to Production on specific date/time. Sometimes we need to contact teams from other geographies for them to finish the work because the time is out of our business hours.It would b...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Support for JMS 2.0

Currently, in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator version 6.2.0, the supported JMS version is 1.1, and it's at its End of Life (surpassed by version 2.0). We are restricted by the Compliance and Security Team from using older versions of products or th...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration