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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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AWS Adapter Enhancements

Enhancement list for AWS adapter includes the following: 1) perimeter server support 2) begin/end session functionality 3) managing credentials in SFG profile (obscuring creds requires that a script is run on the credentials before entering into S...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

JsontoXml out of box service.

Currently JsonToXml service converts a Json data file to respective xml format and stores the xml file in Filesystem under <Install-dir>/bin/output.xml. Parallelly it creates a tag called <output></output> with the xml data insi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

AWS S3 service to look specific folder files in a Bucket

In latest Sterling Integrator AWS S3 service is returning a list of files from all folders in a bucket, there is no option to look for a specific folder files . It would really help customer if IBM considers this enhancement request and get it dev...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 8 Future consideration

File transfer to AWS s3 via perimeter server

On the basis of security concerns Sterling filegateway comes with Perimeter server but when we connect to AWS s3 from SFG there is no option to route file via perimeter server. So to over come this we are raising this idea that when we transfer fi...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Export all the results in one csv file, even if results are in multiple pages - IBM SQL DB Query Client

One request for enhancing the db query client. Even if results show up in pagination. Can you enable a feature where I can export all the results in one csv file. Like for e.g. if query results in more than 10K records, need a feature to export al...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Ability to be able to toggle to view all usage, scheduled usage and unscheduled usage in the usage table by clicking a check box

This feature would allow the user to easily view all usage for an item instead of having to add up all the usage from the issues table. The user could then also see the breakdown between scheduled and unscheduled usage to make a more informed deci...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SFTP Client GET Service - input parameter to set a max number of files processed

We are using the operation SFTPClientGet and the parameter RemoteFilePattern to do a multiple get. See the below example. We would like to have an input parameter allowing us to set a maximum number of files processed during one sftp get opera...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 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...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration