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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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IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Need to have End date option while turning on and off Node in Order Hub for non IV environments

Feature will be useful, where the scenario can happen to Non IV environments too
about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Update outdated Struts jars in product

Current version of Struts v2.5.33 included on Sterling Order Management product is obsolete and not supported any more. It contains known critical security vulnerability (fileUpload), but also might contain other ones which are not revealed. It pu...
about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0

View Only access to Draft Order details

We can't view Draft Order details either from Call Center or from Order HUB when View Only access permissions are provided. IBM suggested to submit future enhancement request.
25 days ago in Call Center 0 Submitted

Introduce new field Count of Work Queues into Bulk list view

Recommending the introduction of new field for Bulk list view (Items) to allow a user to see if the item is currently on a Work Queue. This could be shown as a count or perhaps a Yes. Additionally, the ability to see which work queues. This would ...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

InFlight API needs to support filters for multiple matching values

InFlight API needs to support filters for multiple matching values For example, I often need to search for both 810 and 880 documents. It would be helpful if we could run a single query for doc_type = (810,880).
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

InFlight API limit does not work for values greater than 200

The InFlight API limit does not work for values greater than 200. The value of 200 is the default. If set to greater than 200 an error is returned. This is a problem as I need to filter results by fields like reference number, that are not current...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review