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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...
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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...
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Support IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS run on IBM i 7.6

In April 2025, IBM released version 7.6 of IBM i, the successor to IBM i 7.5.However, we have been informed by the Offering Manager that, at this time, there are no plans to support IBM i 7.6 for IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS, which has hi...
15 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Future consideration

Deployment and Rollback Enhancements

We are requesting the IBM Sterling Integrator (B2Bi) development team to implement an enhanced rollback mechanism for non-outage upgrades in environments consisting of multiple clusters. The current rollback strategy relies on restoring a backup s...
1 day ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Document Object Storage for Connect Direct Adapter

as documented on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.1?topic=container-document-service there is object storage available for most of the adapters but not C:D. this is the main roadblock from stopping us from adopting Object storage for...
2 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

Native D2C Subscriptions Module

As the world of retail and consumer goods is shifting towards more subscription based revenue formats, our customers have been asking for the ability to group subscription related functionality in a native subscription module. Capabilities would i...
3 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Capability to scan destination location without having to first "select" location

When executing a putaway task, user first scans the source location and then the SKUs. User then proceeds to the next page to deposit the product, but even if the destination text box with a scanning icon is present, user is NOT able to scan the d...
3 days ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Submitted

Enhancing ISA Envelope Handling to Support Transaction-Level Control Number Checks

At present, a single ISA envelope is shared across multiple transactions for a given partner/client/version combination. This setup limits our ability to implement transaction-specific ISA envelope configurations—particularly for enabling duplicat...
24 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Submitted

Parity of local and global mailboxes in the B2B REST API

We want to include Global Mailboxes, list, and content extract, just like Local Mailboxes, as part of the B2B REST API. The aim is to enable 1touch and IBM IGDC to integrate with the IBM Sterling solution while monitoring all data passing through ...
19 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Needs more information

IBM License Service for containerized B2b +additional Sterling Data Exchange Products

Chief Architect suggested that I open this with B2B, as B2B owns the helm deployment and container. When integrated, ITX, ITXA and B2BI all run in the same container and that container only reports B2BI VPC to the Licensing service. This makes cli...
16 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

ITXA should require user passwords be changed at least yearly. Preferably every 90 days.

End user passwords are not forced to be reset. According to best practice security standards they shoudl be changed every 90 days or yearly. ITXA has no forced password change functionality. There shoudl be foreced password change based on time. F...
11 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

EDIFACT Control Number override parameters are not unique

Hello Team, In our current implementation, we are attempting to override the EDIFACT control numbers present in both the UNB and UNH segments. However, through investigation with the PMR, we discovered that the Override parameters are being reused...
17 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

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