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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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Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Automated UNSPSC Classification functionality

Since MRO IO team is working on enhancing the features for catalogue cleansing, can you please consider introducing a feature to automate UNSPSC classification using LLM (AI). This will benefit all your clients who currently do not use UNSPSC in t...
18 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Unfreeze top panel of transactions

The top panel of transactions takes up a lot of space and when scrolling down that part is frozen in the browser making the number of transactions we can see at the same time very low (only around six when), see screenshot (the yellow part doesn't...
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Increase large file content to more than 16k

The limit on file content in transaction view is quite low. Can it be possible to get a setting for this instead?
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

More columns in transaction view

It would be helpful when monitoring to be able to choose more columns than 10.
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Export of Trading Partner list to a file

We need an export functionality in IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Hub > My company > Trading partners to easily get the complete list of the TP IDs and their corresponding names. The exported file from here is to be used to feed into our ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 6 Future consideration

Utility to keep Cassandra tables in sync

There are times when Cassandra nodes may get out of sync and some of the nodes may deem it appropriate to bring back records that should no longer belong in the tables. For example: mailbox.messages, mailbox.messages_by_name and mailbox.messages_b...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

Implement Emails for proactively monitoring API and agent's performance.

Similar to what we have on SST for MQ alerts where we can add thresholds it would be useful to have options to add alerts around API thresholds, Agents response times. This will be useful for customers going into Peak to foresee any issues of agen...
about 2 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Under review