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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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System rejected materials due to refresh to the original settings from the initial submission

Materials that are not approved before the MRO IO system refresh, either Delta or monthly, are rejected and returned to the Items list in MRO IO in the base state that they were originally in prior to review by planners or maintenance personnel. T...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

GPM (Graphical Process Modeler)

The current version of GPM does not function with the current Java SDK levels. The last valid Java JDK is Java 1.8.0_281. This fails to meet current Java versions for vulnerability issues. As a result, many will have to justify the need to run an ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 8 Functionality already exists

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Certified Container - db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached

db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached so the logs can be retained even after the auto deletion of db-setup pod. IBM asks for the logs but because the db-setup pod auto deleted so even the ephemeral logs also get deleted which are very imp...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

Email/Alerting Notifications After CCD Jobs

Looking to have an email notifications and address(es) added as a configurable job field, which would be leveraged to send results automatically (if populated with an email address) after job execution. Email should include job status results (suc...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

Control center rule mute option for specific timestamp

We want IBM control center monitor to not send alert during daily restart of SFG nodes.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Need consent before exposing customer's name to others in Sandbox

If you try to register a facility, you can see other users in the drop-down list, but uses have not accepted the exposure to others.
about 1 year ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Functionality already exists

inFlight filter

Somtime, I need to reprocess the inbound ORDERS messages. I would like to add a filter on the reference number. It should be displayed only once, none doubloon. Then I can reprocess all inbound order messages without doubloon.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 3 Functionality already exists

Cognos reports extract through standard integration mechanisms

We have an inhouse alerting, monitoring and reporting capability that is dependent on receiving data from various applications. We are writing custom reports in Cognos reporting suite to access the data that is needed to deliver our requirements. ...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Functionality already exists

Display fulfillment overrides information in Node Availability API output

If a node is disabled for a given delivery method the availability will show 0 but there's no context of why it's 0. Displaying fulfillment overrides information in output will allow callers of the API to distinguish between not having available i...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists