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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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Sterling to support Active Directory or Entra (security) group

Active Directory Security group help our organization to 1. process MACD especially Add and Remove members 2. managerial attestation (employees are removed from accessing Sterling as soon as he/she leaves the company. In our case, we have many int...
23 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Add support for configuring password history in IBM Sterling Control Center to prevent reuse of previous passwords.

Currently, Sterling Control Center allows setting password length, complexity, and expiration rules, but does not provide an option to enforce password history. This feature is critical for strengthening security by ensuring users cannot reuse rec...

Automated Validation for Corrupted Maps During Export/Import and Deployment

Currently, there is no automated check available in IBM Sterling Integrator / ITX to detect if an ITX map gets corrupted during export or import. In many cases, a corrupted map gets deployed into higher environments without any warning, which late...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Enhancement for ZIP adapter

a option to list the files present in the zip file. Using ITX map we are able to compress and decompress a zip file. But the problem is we are unsure what files will be received in the zip file. If we are able to do it via a command in zip adapter...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Future consideration

Request to Implement FLAG-Based ERN Alerts

ERN configurations rely heavily on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to trigger alerts to the users. This system works well if the sender/receiver/doctype is resolved by the time failure happens. However, if a failure occurs before the met...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Get the list of SKU's against node which are fulfillment allowed disabled using IV API

Business use case We would like to have solution or IV API to get the list of SKU's which are fulfillment allowed disabled against the nodes. Even with Inventory audit api we are not able to identify why and when sku against node fulfillment allow...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

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. ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

SAP ALE Adapter - Support Connecting to Load Balanced SAP Environment

IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS platform does not support connecting to load balanced SAP environment using ALE connections today. We need changes to the existing JCo properties to enable this support. This should benefit all IBM Sterling B2B In...

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration