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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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Alert to files stuck in SFG mailbox

Occasionally when SFG encounters issues files will not get picked up and routed by SFG. Until the file has been picked up by the SFG routing rule it is not visible in the SFG arrived file display meaning it is hard to identify where there are issu...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 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...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Ability for customers to set up their own network reports

An added functionality in Document Tracking that allows customers to set up Network reports such as the 030 report (error report) 070 Report (Daily Processing Report) 020 Report (Transmission Report). The benefit of allowing customers to set these...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Planned for future release

FSA(File System Adaptor) creating folders Automatically

Currently when extracting a files using File System Adaptor, by default FSA automatically creates the folder if it does not exists. There should be a parameter using which I can decide if I want FSA to create the folder automatically or not.
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Pinned note. A note that is retained at the top to the Notes window

This note maybe information that is critical to future decisions. As an example, in our business we have spares that are not classified as Critical, but we want to ensure that they are always retained in stock. As the current user, I am aware to l...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Be able to configure RTAM to not monitor Model item level availability

RTAM spends time calculating the Model item level inventory availability (yfs_item.is_model_item = 'Y') but our business does not use this information so it's an opportunity to save resources for us. Could we add a customer overrides property to d...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

Config Hub Codelist download in CTE/Production must have filename prefix or suffix - CTE/PROD/Business Alias

When an SME is trying to download codelist from CTE/Production via Config Hub both of them have the same file name which creates to much confusion, Can we have a prefix or suffix as CTE or PROD or at least Business Alias that can indicate from whi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration