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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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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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Download more than 10,000 lines in InFlight at a time

For billing each month, we are required to pull our own report in InFlight for the amount of documents processed for each month. Currently we are only able to download 10,000 lines at a time into an excel spreadsheet. It is very time consuming to ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Planned for future release

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...
10 months ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

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

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

Integrating Websphere Service Registry and Repository With Webspher Transformation Extender (WTX)

Integration WTX with WSRR functionality in wtx
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Order Management on Cloud (OMoC) Data Access 

The Development team and Business Operations team relies heavily on ad hoc data analysis and were expecting to be able to query the OMoC data directly using tools such as Toad, SQL Developer, etc. However, IBM does not allow external database conn...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists

FileAgent - Windows .ser file cleartext

Have the Default_Config.ser or other .ser files clear text or similar.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

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...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

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