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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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Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Needs more information

Support for Oracle 23ai

Oracle have renamed Oracle 23c to Oracle 23ai as of May 2024. Customers technology stacks are being updated to use RHEL9 and Oracle 23ai so we need this to be supported. Although there is no general purpose on premise version other than Oracle23ai...

Need more access methods other than SAS token in transfer from Sterling Integrator to Azure Blob Storage

We are currently looking into the options for the Sterling to Blob write options with the newly available Object Store Client Adapter as mentioned below. Object Store Client Adapter - IBM Documentation With the setup provided in the guidance, we c...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Future consideration

Need to have a way to switch EBICS User Roles

We have a current situation where our client has asked us to switch the roles of two EBICS user accounts—from technical to non-technical and vice versa. I'm asking for a way to configure a current EBICS user without having to delete the user accou...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Submitted

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 2 Under review

IBM License Service for containerized B2b +additional Sterling Data Exchange Products

Chief Architect suggested that I open this with B2B, as B2B owns the helm deployment and container. When integrated, ITX, ITXA and B2BI all run in the same container and that container only reports B2BI VPC to the Licensing service. This makes cli...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Request to Implement FLAG-Based InFlight Data Filters

InFlight data filters rely on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to display documents to users. This system works well for successful documents. However, if a failure occurs before the metadata (Sender, Receiver, Doctype) is resolved, those...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

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.
3 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...
3 months ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

Private Key Authentication for JDBC Connections

Our current Sterling 6.1.2 is connecting to Snowflake DB using JDBC (Snowflake driver) with username/password authentication method. Now, due to security reasons, the Snowflake is enforcing private key authentication (.p8) instead of password. But...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted