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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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Display Preprocessor Map Names in Inflight Event Details & allow searches

We have several flows that require executing a series of preprocessor maps before the data reaches the actual translation map. Since we don't track all steps in sequential order in INFLIGHT, we are requesting the engineering team to display the "P...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Password Vault support for outgoing Connect Direct for Windows transfers

There is a need to execute Connect Direct transfers securely as a User/Functional ID managed through Password Vault.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Future consideration

Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Add a status field on Inflight under Business Field1 to find out only the status of "Finish" documents

Many Support Users from GSK are asking if there is a way find Finish documents from Inflight from search criteria instead of looking into events. This feature will also be useful if there was a planned outage at partner of customer side to hold do...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Ability to convert TEXT / HTML data to PDF in GIODE flows

We would like to have Text/HTML-to-PDF convertor (PDF Generator) available to be executed as an XProcessor. In other words, any TEXT -or- HTML payload passed to this XProcessor should be converted into PDF format. This will help customers to recei...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Enable IBMID/Federation at individual OMS application level

The enhancement will enable enterprises to configure sterling module (e.g., Contact Center, Store Engagement, Console) access/ login approach independently of the module. This would allow the enterprise to choose, per module, either log in via SSO...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Configuring the SEAS to only respond with (UserID & Destination Indicator) in response to SSP and forward the Authentication request (Password/SSH Key) aganist/to Sterling integrator local store?

The process/flow will follow the below steps from (User to SSP to SEAS to SI) Step 1 - User Authentication request comes from SSP layer to SEAS; Step 2 - SEAS validates the user against connected AD and return only "UserID/Username && Dest...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Include Group Sender / Group Receiver ID's as configurable columns in Standard InFlight Reports

Inbound/outbound data activity and trading partner summary reports in InFlight portals tracks at Interchange level (ISA or UNB level) only. We would like to see Group ID's (GS or UNG) available in InFlight UI so that user can select those columns ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Include ExtraInfo 1, 2 & 3 as configurable columns in Standard InFlight Activity Reports

We would like to see an option in InFlight UI to select ExtraInfo 1, 2 & 3 as configurable columns in InFlight activity reports
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release