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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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System level failure Notifications

Purpose of this request: Files entering IBM B2B SaaS solution should create failure notifications if failed. This is working fine when a file is failing in Inflight – Processing step. However, 2 areas are identified when no failure notification is...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications / Inflight 1 Under review

Bulk Edit from File if errored should display more details

When the file used in bulk edit from file throws error, it will be good to have more details on the error like- no unique match found for some specific rows or missing items etc. Currently, we have to try various scenarios to troubleshoot the prob...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

Enhance RESTAPIClient service to retrieve headers

The current RESTAPIClient service is missing functionality to retrieve header information when calling an API. For example. When you do a call to an API (GET) with a custom header element (<X-CSRF-TOKEN>fetch</X-CSRF-TOKEN>) to fetch a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support First Time Password change between SSP/SEAS and B2Bi managed user accounts and subsequent password change should be allowed via SSP password portal to change the B2Bi password through SEAS.

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about 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add possibility to use separate client TLS certificate for each Global Mailbox server when connecting to Cassandra and Zookeeper

Due to security compliance reasons please add possibility to use separate client TLS certificate for each Global Mailbox server when connecting to Cassandra and Zookeeper
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Redirect HTTP to HTTPs in B2B REST API Service/ Enforce HTTPS-only connection

Currently, the B2B REST API is exposed with HTTP and HTTPS but the other connections and configurations from Sterling Integrator are configured with HTTP by default as Sterling Control Center or PEM. Unlike other Sterling B2B Integrator components...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Increase the size of Default_config.json in CDFA 6.3

have observed in the wild (namely, banking sector customer support scenario), that when the default_config.json is larger than 1MB, integrated FA fails to either import the new configuration, save new config or reopen the configuration for editing...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Support for Java 11+

Currently IBM Sterling is officially only supported on Java 1.8. There are improvements made on JDK since 1.8 especially around native webservice call. We would like IBM to certify java 11 and above for Sterling OMS.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration