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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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ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

REST API client service content type

The RESTAPIClient service accepts only 'Application/JSON and Application/XML as valid values for Content-type. For our integration with Okta, Okta expects the content-type as ' application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. While this works fine with postman...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Create multiple indexes in one shot

When developing and working with item(s), it could be interesting to create several indexes of an item in one shot. This is to avoid using the "add index" function again and again (which is time consuming)
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Support HP-UX B.11.31 for SSP 6.1

Could you please provide support for SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31? A customer in the financial industry needs us to support SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31 because HPE offers the extended support for B.11.31 until Dec 2028. https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/servers/...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Enable CCD to deploy patches in Iseries and Tandem estate

We have a significant tandem and iseries estate in the organisation. Following a CCD process to upgrade a patching on these platforms will create a standard CD patching across the estate.
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Allowing to Administrator Sponsor Users to Edit the Same Activity

We would like to request that two Sponsor administrator users have the ability to edit the same activity. Currently unless you are the one who creates or "saves" the activity it is not possible to edit. This has proven difficult for version contro...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Add Shipping Country, Shipping Address, and Shipping Zip Code columns to order search screen in OMS Call Center

Today when a user searches for records via the Order Search screen in Call Center, there is not a column to indicate the shipping country the record is tied to which makes it complicated for CSR users to quickly see where the order is from. This i...
6 months ago in OMS - Call Center 5 Not under consideration

Weak Cipher in client certificate

Hi IBM Team, One of our vendors are trying get connection to Sterling OMS using CURL command, they do have the certificate from DOM QA2 environment. However when they try to get the connection, they are getting below issue. $ openssl pkcs12 -info ...
6 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

data anonymization/masking (typetree attribute + test mode)

There are 2 requirements that lead to this idea: 1.) external requirements like GDPR force us to anonymize/pseudonymize data in non-production environments2.) A-B-testing would be much easier if we can mask dynamic attributes (e.g. timestamps) T...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration