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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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Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

Return Order Invoice should not automatically reduce the LineCharge(DISCOUNT). If it is more than LineTotalWithoutTax but equals to LineTotalWithTax

Scenario: A Sales order is Created-Scheduled-Releases-Shipped-Invoiced(Either Order or Shipment Invoicing), Item theft reported, Customer care gave entire line total as a discount. Later item was identified at a Carrier location, and processed as ...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

Read REST API Client for POST

In the documentation, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.0.2?topic=z-rest-api-client-service, the outputpath is specified for a GET but we are attempting to POST. While the BP uses the path I've specified to write a file, it's a 0 byte f...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

DB2 HADR (ACR) support for ICC and underlying COGNOS

DB2 Clustering (HADR) is well accepted in the DB2 community. SFG has recently added support for the ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) functionality to take advantage of DB2 clusters perss this link:SFG_with_ACR SCC support for DB2 clusters is also ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

RabbitMQ integration

At this moment there is no way to connect with RabbitMQ topics or queus in a native way using B2Bi. RabbitMQ has AMQP as default protocol so it would be useful to have this possibility. A second option is to use the JMS 1.1 interface since RabbitM...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

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

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 5 Future consideration

REST API client service content type

The RESTAPIClient service accepts only 'Application/JSON and Application/XML as valid values for Content-type. For our integration with Okta, Okta expects the content-type as ' application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. While this works fine with postman...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

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