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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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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.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Bulk ID Migrations – competitor VANS have this functionality

Bulk ID Migrations What is the problem we are trying to solve? Not having to manually migrate one id at a time when there is a large migration as it can be very time consuming. What is the impact of how it is currently working? Migrate one id at a...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 3 Under review

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Having different Status icon and Status in InFlight for the files that are Finished and not delivered to Partner/Customer.

Currently we see a Green tick mark for the files that get successfully processed irrespective of the fact whether these were delivered to the receiving party via an established connectivity or else FINISHED on SCBN. Many times while working on the...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

InFlight API needs to support filters for multiple matching values

InFlight API needs to support filters for multiple matching values For example, I often need to search for both 810 and 880 documents. It would be helpful if we could run a single query for doc_type = (810,880).
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

InFlight API limit does not work for values greater than 200

The InFlight API limit does not work for values greater than 200. The value of 200 is the default. If set to greater than 200 an error is returned. This is a problem as I need to filter results by fields like reference number, that are not current...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Allow Admin users to export the list of configured users, application access, and data filter details in Excel format

In the IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Hub, under Customer Company > Managed Users & Groups, all configured users for the company are listed. Currently, the system does not allow ADMIN users to export the configured user details in a spre...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Allow custom metadata tags rather than forcing predefined tags like "business reference"

Our viewers come from many teams and may want to search documents by different important tags. Such as 'SHID', 'MBOL', 'LoadNumber', 'OrderNumber', 'InvoiceNumber', etc. Today Inflight only allows "Business Ref", and ExtraInfo 1-3 for data like th...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) / Mapping & Translation 4 Under review