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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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Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

Create Business view in Config Center for Codelists, Mappings, Connections, Keys/Certficates

This feature will be helpful when there are codelists with same names across different BA's. Same map names such as document extraction maps or typing maps across different BA's. Could be helpful for connections and keys/certificates
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 4 Not under consideration

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

SIP: Implement Priority Based Sourcing Rules in Sterling Intelligence Promising

Priority of shipnode in Distribution group is not working while calculating estimated delivery date using Calculate item delivery or pickup date using finite capacity windows API. Customers need Ship Node Priority Based Sourcing” in SIP
almost 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
5 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Application Interface for Java support to iSeries C:D version

CDJAI support all other platforms (Windows, Unix, ZOS and Tandem) except iSeries. This limitation restricts users to automate C:D configuration through CDJAI, similar to what we do in other platforms. Now we have to login to iSeries machine to do ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 3 Not under consideration

generate a PDF file with the images and tables using the details in the received input file.

PDF adapter needs more power to generate pdf files with images and tables using the data from the input file/message.
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

Add a "reject" button in addition to approve and defer.

The current practice of our users, if they do not want to accept the tool's recommended parameters, is to make a note, select "approve" but leave the export button unchecked. It can be difficult to determine whether or not the tool's recommendatio...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM External Authentication Server in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM SEAS helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra annotations we need to...