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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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Show source IP and user in log for ALL attempts

It is useful to scan logs with security tools to look for patterns in brute force access to the B2B Integrator instance. None of the logs today contain the real source IP of connection attempts. Only certain logs show the perimeter server IP the r...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

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

SST - > Server Configuration Tab-> Enable Sorting based on Columns

SST - > Server Configuration Tab-> Enable Sorting based on Columns. Currently none of the columns are allowing Sorting. Having the ability to sort based on Name,Type,Profile,Number of Instances and Status will be helpful.
7 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 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

We would like the ability to add docs/pictures to materials in bulk.

After performing annual inventory counts, there are many useful pictures that we would like to be able to upload at once. In attention to pictures, there may be spec sheets from the manufacturer, test records, etc. It can be time consuming to add ...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Able to fetch results using custom fields in Pick Summary list

Need the API to fetch results using custom fields in Pick Summary list eg:Using references in the fields or fetching results by order_by using any custom field in the references API Details: Get List of Pick Requests available for the tenant and s...
4 months ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

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

Add more Ciphers for SSH to security.properties supported by JDK8

Please enable the following Ciphers: diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 diffie-hellman-group15-sha512 diffie-hellman-group16-sha512 rsa2048-sha256 AEAD_AES_128_GCM AEAD_AES_256_GCM hmac-sha11 hmac-sha2-512 Kind Regards
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add possibility to use separate client TLS certificate for each Global Mailbox server when connecting to Cassandra and Zookeeper

Due to security compliance reasons please add possibility to use separate client TLS certificate for each Global Mailbox server when connecting to Cassandra and Zookeeper
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Can you please have the sterling b2b map editor tested and certified for win11 pro.

win11 is here. this has to happen and i am hoping it will be sooner rather than later.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review