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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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CD Windows: CODEPAGE MBCS change mlang.dll for MultiByteToWideChar Win32 API

After a lot of months discussingg with IBM CD lab and Microsoft developement support (see cases TS011672863 and TS014123302), Microsoft accepts that mlang.dll has a problem with copepage conversion in CDWindows with ISO8859-15 and UTF8. Their reco...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

ICC New datetime field - Custom API

The bank is trying to leverage the ICC SLC process to track whether a file has met its SLC.We are having applications (ie. SFG components and other custom applications) raising MQ events with time stamp to start and end SLC of a file.We then wrote...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 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

Ability to reset data in non prod environments.

It would be great if IBM could provide the ability to reset the data in Sterling IV or the ability to roll back to an older data snapshot. This will help the clients a lot. Right now, we are asked to use APIs to do it, which is not efficient and...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Planned for future release

Validate API for Managed SSL Cert and Managed SSH Key

The out-of-box PEM Portal activities have options for Partners to upload SSL or SSH Keys. In case of a user error, a partner may upload an incorrect file. In such a scenario, the API to store SSL Cert or SSH Key to PR fails and there is no way to ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics

In CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics CDWS endpoint: /cdwebconsole/svc/selectstatistics Example: CD Unix sel stat command there is a millisecond value: EVENT RECORD Record Id => SSTR Process Nam...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 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...
11 months ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

We would like out of the box adapters for Sharepoint and SMB for file servers to allows file transfers to these endpoints

We move large volumes of files between servers and with some internal applications coming to the end of life they are turning to our MFT to transfer files from servers to sharepoint and file server (SMB). We would like to use built in adapter like...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

CLA2Server publicCertAlias

Now publicCertAlias value of the Command line adapter2 server (CLA2Server) only support the leaf certificate instead of root/intermediate certificate for client authentication with CLA2Client. So it means that all CLA2Client adapter must be use th...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Future consideration