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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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Export files in UTF8 format

Gentran exports inbound files in ASCI format. If Netweaver option is select to send the idocs to SAP, the idoc file format has to be in UTF8, this is what IBM suggested. Please add an option in Gentran where files export has an option to select AS...

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

accessing specific folder inside a AWS S3 bucket with list action

Currently, Adapater has capability yto list files and folders in bucket, but not in the specific folder. Only get option available, not list. Usually access is restricted to folder, not to bucket.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

AWS S3 service to look specific folder files in a Bucket

In latest Sterling Integrator AWS S3 service is returning a list of files from all folders in a bucket, there is no option to look for a specific folder files . It would really help customer if IBM considers this enhancement request and get it dev...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 8 Future consideration

Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

The ability for B2B Integrator to auto accept host keys

At present, we manually accept host keys whenever they are updated by external servers. We would like the B2B integrator to automatically accept these host key changes.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Support different version of OS in cluster

As customer is planning to increase the number of nodes (e.g 50) in Sterling B2B Integrator, different OS will be adopted in near future. They request that Sterling B2B Integrator should support different version of OS in cluster.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Database for IV

Need a read only database to connect to that shows all supply and demand records, quantities, ship nodes, sourceTs, segment info, etc. from IV. This will help with data cleanup and visibility. We have no way of knowing about stale data unless we q...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

Enable Dynamic Carrier and Carrier Service Selection in ScheduleOrder Transaction

We request an enhancement to the IBM Sterling Order Management System (OMS) to allow the ScheduleOrder transaction to dynamically compute and assign the best available Carrier and Carrier Service when these are not explicitly specified on the Orde...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Under review

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025