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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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CDWS - certificate-based authentication - CLIENT certificate differentiation

We use standard connection path for certificate-based authentication: CLIENT (for example curl command) -> CDWS (CD Web Services) -> CD (Connect Direct) Let's assume that: CLIENT uses client certificate with CNAME=cert1 CDWS server uses cert...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume Field to be defined something like TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal (16,4) ... and not TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal(14,4) At the moment the TOTAL_VOLUME(14,4) does not accomodate over siz...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

ITX - Extend validation exception handling for messages with a known structure BUT an unknown (as more recent) version

Currently ITX FinPay routing map identifies a messages based on the tag <FIToFICstmrCdtTrf> in Document and not based on message name and its version (pacs.008.001.08). This causes a problem when a message based on a more recent version is r...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Planned for future release

Config Hub - Resource version selection and deployment option and Sync between Config Center and Config Hub

Existing Solution: Using Config Hub Customer/IBM Team can update the Resource but there is no option for revert back to old version and if we revert back through Config Center then new update creating in Config Hub instead of referring the old ver...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Planned for future release

Italian E-invoicing: Time reporting between Inflight submitted date and reached SDI date

By law in Italy all EDI invoices need to be supplied to SDI within 12 calendar days. In order to find out if this is the case it is required to have data from Inflight to query. Currently the Event data when it is requesting SDI to approve or deny...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

More Flexibility in Segmenting Inventory

We have various types of customers shipping from our warehouses, and our partnershps vary. Some partners are assigned a fixed # of units of inventory, while others are assigned a share (%) of units in a specific warehouse. It is important for our ...
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0

Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Extend processcontrolcriterias CDWS web service in order to run simple transfers on-the-fly

Currently in CDWS the "processcontrolcriterias" web service allows to run Connect Direct transfers using processFile with path to *.cdp process file which must be present on the server prior to Connect Direct transfer execution. For simple transfe...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Improve the Secure + Key Certificates Report and Trusted Certificates Report

Please add the validity dates (start and expiration) to the Secure + Key Certificates Report and the Trusted Certificates Report. This is useful information that is often needed and would assist in the management of key and trusted certificates.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Rest API: Allow Redeliver by route_key (deliveryKey)

I want to use the Sterling B2B Rest API to Redeliver a single delivery from a Broadcast route as can be done from Filegateway as seen in support article: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/298739 In the B2B Rest API explore there is the uri /B...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 4 Future consideration