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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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Deployment and Rollback Enhancements

We are requesting the IBM Sterling Integrator (B2Bi) development team to implement an enhanced rollback mechanism for non-outage upgrades in environments consisting of multiple clusters. The current rollback strategy relies on restoring a backup s...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Allow onboarded partners to download Enterprise profile's SSL certificate

Allow onboarded partners to download Enterprise profile's SSL certificate so that certificate management, including certificate update communication, can occur via partner portal. Enterprise profile can store outbound SSL certificates used by vari...
13 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Certify NetApp S3 Object Storage with Connect:Direct

Usage of Non-AWS S3 based object storage is increasing with NetApp NAS filers being amongst the leaders in this space.
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

Enhance the EBMS:0006 Polling Response Detail

Currently the B2BAC platform returns the generic EMBS:0006 error response to a polling request with the generic description "There is no message available for pulling from this MPC at this moment' This generic response is returned in three distinc...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

File Encoding Not Properly Reflected in InFlight UI

The "Encoding" option in the InFlight UI currently displays "default," which does not provide meaningful information to the user. As a result, users must download the file, open it in a text editor such as Notepad++, and manually check the actual ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 3 Under review

Standardise Audit Report for Configuration Changes

The Dashboard Audit Report is not consistent when reporting on operator IDs making configuration changes. Most configuration changes, e.g. adapters, partner profiles, business processes, are logged on the Audit Report under the User ID that made t...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

SSL Certificates Management (CA, Trusted, System)

Certificate management in SB2Bi requires a lot of handling because nothing is managed dynamically. To establish an HTTPS connection, it is necessary to specify the SSL server certificate (CA Certificate) to be used for negotiating the transaction....
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Enable Config Hub UI to Select the Core System Map 'bldvda' in Outbound VDA Envelope for IBMers Only

VDA 4913 Outbound Interchange Header 711 version 03 vs 02 issue. Config Hub currently has Outbound envelope limitation issue which could create a blockage for future VDA onboardings for current and future clients. According to a current client req...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

SIP : Network availability API to return node-level availability view

Retailers who use an external Order Management System (OMS) or order sourcing and SIP for inventory visibility / promising, often do not maintain individual node identifiers which is having inventory. In the current model, external systems must ex...
15 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted