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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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Be able to control GS Control number format for ANSI X12 data

The WebMethods cloud product formats the GS level control number to be padded with leading 0s. This field is a variable length field and by the standard, should be sent without the leading 0s. As of today, we have to manually add a step in the flo...
23 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Allow different Node Balancing Cost (NBC) parameters by Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The SLA configuration we have loaded has values of Standard, 1Day, and 2Day. Is it possible to have different node balancing configuration values (Tiebreaker cost, Backlog Threshold, Overcapacity Penalty) for each node that vary by SLA? For exampl...
24 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Prepare to support EBICS v4.0

EBICS is a banking standard used by banks and corporations in Europe for payments, cash and treasury management etc. The EBICS organisation is looking to build on the harmonisation introduced in EBICS v3, introduced in 2018, focusing on: EBICS V 4...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS. In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost. There is the...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Adding new tile/new link/extra buttons in Home Screen Next Gen Call Center

Next Gen Call Center does not provide a way to customize the home screen by adding a new tile for Product Search or Transfer Order Search etc. Also there is no option to add additional links or buttons - 'create wishlist', 'create appeasement orde...
2 months ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Planned for future release

myfilegateway GUI popup messages

We are using IBM MyFileGateway v1.0 solution for HTTPs file transfer. Our customers are using this portal for upload/download files over HTTPs. Our Internal Business Team raised serious concerns over UI observations/issues which are easily noticea...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Functionality already exists

Capacity calculation to honor Node's locale

Since Capacity is used to control the number of fulfillments to be done from a particular ship node (either Store or DC), its critical to have the capacity calculation is done in the DC's locale instead of UTC. We have this requirement at Lands En...
24 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

ITXA needs to check the ST02 control number ONLY within the current interchange for HIPAA, NOT against transactions from prior interchanges

APAR PH20861 https://github.ibm.com/ITXA/spe-features/issues/40 The update partially satisfies the healthcare needs required by the company.The property enveloping.CHECK_DUPSEQ_ST_CONTROL_NUMBERS_WITHIN_INTERCHANGE=YES introduced with APAR PH20861...
25 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release