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10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to adjust periods used in calculating issue size

Since we have a great deal of historical data in the tool, I would like to be able to adjust the time period used in calculating the issue quantity, much as I can control how many usage periods are included in the forecast. For one example we look...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Within BPML, SFTPClient operation set needs a way to check status of an active session: introduce SFTPClientSessionStatus call.

One fundamental problem is that sometimes the SFTP Session will inadvertently end mid-operation, perhaps closed by server. When this happens, an operation call like SFTPClientList or SFTPClientPut will simply fault. It will return a SessionEndTime...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Assess and modify Sterling OMS to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit IBM and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a...

SFG integration with Mainframe SFTP server Co:Z

Hi Team, We have SFTP server on mainframe using product CO:Z. In order to send files from open system to mainframe we have to set DCB parameters. Along with we want to trigger processes on mainframe. ls /+mode=text ,lrecl=80,recfm=fb,space=cyl.5.5...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Config Hub Codelist interface to reflect number of entries in a codelist for each version

Can we have the user interface updated to reflect the number of entries that exist in each version of the codelist, so that whenever a new entry is added, SME is confident about the deployment. Currently, in some instances, we are checking in the ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Having different Status icon and Status in InFlight for the files that are Finished and not delivered to Partner/Customer.

Currently we see a Green tick mark for the files that get successfully processed irrespective of the fact whether these were delivered to the receiving party via an established connectivity or else FINISHED on SCBN. Many times while working on the...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Order Service API Audit Logs

Hi IBM Sterling Support Team, We are requesting an enhancement to the Order Service API to provide comprehensive audit logs for API calls. Currently, we lack detailed, accessible audit trails for interactions with the Order Service API. This absen...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists