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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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Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...

Customized automated report functionality

Earlier we had an option to create customized reports in BPN. This option was sunset and now we are unable to create any new customized reports. We are receiving the new requests from customers to create customized reports based on document type,...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Planned for future release

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Support individual system RSU upgrade in CDPLEX environment

We are trying to achieve a high availability environment for CD with CDPLEX. Supporting RSU upgrade per system instead of per SYSPLEX will allow us to failover seamlessly if there is an issue with RSU upgrade on one particular LPAR.
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

MapTrace should be written to memory

Currently, there is no equivalent to the SI Map Translation Report when ITX maps are handled. The MapTrace provides similar information in that it can be used to determine the cause for failure, however it is currently only possible to generated t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 7 Needs more information

Code Lists Should Be Searchable

Code Lists should be searchable. It looks like this was done for PEM code lists (https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PEM-I-114) but the same functionality was not given to B2Bi. Please remedy!
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Password policy enforcement - minimum change password timeframe

To deny automated user's password change, add an additional parameter in password policy indicating the minimum number of days between a password is changed and the next time it can be changed.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

To display RuleID in Inflight Event Details

As of now, the RULE ID is displayed in Inflight event details only if the rule was set to 'Finish' action. To search for earlier files and determine which rules have been applied, we will need to access a different portal (BPN Tool). In this porta...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Work with Qualys to suppress CVE-2023-50164 false positive scan for SFG and B2BIi

Vulnerability Software Qualys are identifying IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling B2B File Gateway impacted by CVE-2023-50164. IBM sterling product team confirmed the products are not impacted but scan results are still showing up. relate...

KPI Monitoring - Credit consumption

We need to have real time monitoring solution for following up our consumption of AppPoints and other KPIs: Real time ideally Possibility to consolidate the data per day, over a period, per month, per year. Possibility to compare the consumption w...
6 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration