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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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To be able to run a report of the maps that are actually being used in the data and how often the map is being used. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Columns so it would allow the Map names to show on the reports.

This will help to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps' usage. It could be ran as the inbound/outbound activity report is currently ran from within Inflight. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Column...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Capability to integrate SaaS logging mechanism with 3rd Party applications e.g Splunk

IBM SaaS has an out-of-the-box capability for monitoring and alerting. This information is surfaced in the form of Gray logs within the platform however there is no option available to integrate & exchange this information with other third-par...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

XMLjsonTransformer for conversion xml to json with array

The conversion xmlToJson generate a file with different tag type when the xml have an array with only one element
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Escape Special Characters in URL for Get Request

HTTP rest client's such as Postman typically allow for special characters in the Get request, PEM HTTP requests do not.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Multiple User Credentials

Our product team has grown exponentially; we now have around 9 teams with 2-4 developers in each team, and potentially all will have PROD access to IV at some point. Currently, we only have one generic user credentials to make changes in PROD. Thi...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex di...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Rotables Logic Widget

A Functionality around Split Valuation materials to allow for overall right-sizing Core, Repaired, New, Capital materials from SOH and ROP/MAX = How many of each type is needed, how many are "in rotation" where are they, how many are due back eith...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 6 Future consideration

Address the log4J 1.x vulnerable Liberty WAR files in SB2Bi version 6.1.2

According to the release notes by IBM on the Sterling B2B Integrator version 6.1.2 it states "Apache log4j 1.x is removed and now we are using Apache log4j 2.17.2." However after updating to 6.1.2 The war files listed below still contained log4j 1...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Is a defect

Global Mailbox needs to have a sample Mailbox Message Delete BP or Documentation demonstrating the best methods for deleting Global Mailbox Messages

Currently Global Mailbox does not have any out of the box Mailbox Message Delete BP. B2Bi has the Mailbox Scheduled Delete Service which can be configured to delete traditional mailbox messages. This service can list all the mailboxes and allow fo...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Planned for future release

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration