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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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Kill Switch / Hardstop for Adapters in irresponsive stat

Hi Team, we had many occasions where an adapter is in irresponsive stat, and we will not be able to start the adapter via Sterling dashboard or via opscmd.sh / opscmd.cmd. We have tried many times to stop via opscmd.sh/cmd and start it still comes...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

Update or Modification of Partner Configuration to the existing role out if incase of any failure

We are having issue deleting the partner ID from PEM.Below are the details:After completing the onboarding process, both PartnerName and PartnerId are generated and recorded in the Partner Information task. If a system failure occurs during the in...
6 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Under review

Reverse Partial Consumed Paypal Auth at the time of expiry

For PayPal orders during Re auth on expiration for partially shipped orders results in PayPal settlement failures where huge no. of orders are getting impacted.In Production, we have a setup of expiring the authorization of orders in 10 days. When...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Add Data Delay and Outage Notifications to InFlight application

Currently client notifications for Data Delays or Communication Outages are provided via a notification system that sends emails or voice messages to a configured distribution list for each account. It would be helpful if these notifications could...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Embed watsonx into IBM Sterling OMS to enable an AI foundation model that looks at all the OMS/Inventory data to provide a streamlined question/response dialog similar to chatbots and/or ChatGPC

The IBM Sterling OMS is a perfect solution to embed the watsonx solution. Building out a foundation model leveraging the OMS and Inventory data set would allow us to show a progressive approach to interact with the solution across various OMS pers...
9 months ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

Sharepoint Integration

We are getting a lot of requests to transfer files directly to a sharepoint site using connect direct
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

InFlight - Add Protocol Process ID as an addable column on search page

Adding Protocol Process ID as a visible, searchable field in the results page would allow isolation of traffic by connection for easier troubleshooting. This would be beneficial for both clients and support, and seems like it should be easy to imp...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator - Automated way -Existing Customer data - examine ssh pub keys with size

Refer Case details response - Case number# TS010477941
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Needs more information