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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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Native Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Support in Sterling B2B Integrator for Enhanced Security

Currently, Sterling B2B Integrator relies on external components (such as SSP) or custom integrations to enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for internal and privileged users. This creates additional complexity and overhead for organizations...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Support Acknowledgement Reconciliations for NONEDI flows

We are currently supporting acknowledgment reconciliations for OUTBOUND EDI documents only based on inbound "997/CONTRL" documents. Customer wants IBM to support acknowledgement reconciliations for NONEDI interfaces as well. They are sending outbo...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 3 Not under consideration

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Lookup inventory by location takes long

When lookup inventory is done by location, we are seeing a lot of latency (upto 20 mins!) when fetching a location which has 36k SKUs.
4 months ago in Store Engagement / Performance 1 Under review

Put away multiple SKUs to one location

Today, when stores receive cartons, there are multiple SKUs within a single carton. We are doing put away at carton level to reduce the time spent by the store users. As more often than not, all SKUs in the carton go to single destination location...
4 months ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

The customer BALT-EMEA is asking to receive on daily base an overview in .CSV format via mail of the EDI’s received/sent at CEVA of the day before

The customer BALT-EMEA is asking to receive on daily base an overview in .CSV format via mail of the EDI’s received/sent at CEVA of the day before. Most optimal would be using the data in the InflightSearchReport which we can already trigger manua...

Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP)

Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This document proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for alternative user exit options beyond th...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Transformations/Envelopes Please Remove Production facing Envelopes from view in CTE Next Envelope choice list.

It is confusing and might lead to issues, if permitted to select a Next Envelope on a CTE envelope that does not actually exist in CTE. For example, in the screenshots attached, when searching for a next envelope, the list provides 4 GS envelopes,...
about 1 month ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

Allow all decryption ciphers for OFTP according to the official Odette specifications

We were told that the SI software is coded based upon https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5024#section-10.2 which only includes 2 ciphers for decryption and these are outdated. Companies are switching to a more secure cipher which prevents us...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted