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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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Send record length and block size larger than 4050 on HPNS Connect Direct

The record size when it worked was BLK Size = 27944 and RECL = 3992 it was changed to BLK SIZE = 21742 RECL= 10871 and then the job fail to completed and abend in NDM
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 8 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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Submitted

Support ICAP Virus scan for Forward Proxy connections

Sterling customers that receive data from partners benefit from ICAP streaming virus scan. However, most customers support both file transfer motions where SFG/B2Bi reach out to partners to move files as well. This reach out (listening producer) s...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Submitted

Enable Order Type Filter in dashboard and workspace of OrderHub

In OrderHub to show KPIs there are 2 options : dashboard workspace Both are not having filter for ordertype. There is an attribute present in order model (/Order/@OrderType) which should be enabled to define the filter. All KPIs should be based on...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.

Table admin_audit should log all SSH profile changes

Today, SI admin_audit table does not log any SSH profile changes. Requesting to including logging for SSH profile updates, deletions, and creates for auditing purposes.

Use Rest APIs as bulk file transfer mechanism. APIs to be shared with partners so they can push bulk files directly to B2B mailbox

Partners to push bulk files/messages directly to the mailbox Will be use like B2B Liberty API’s whereby partners will have to authenticate and then they should be able to do a basic upload “POST” to upload a file with a single http request. The AP...
4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 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...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted