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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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AS2 Error: BPN_EDIINTBuild - Cannot find a class that corresponds to Oid 2.5.4.97; please see oid.map for details

IBM customers and partners widely use AS2 communication protocol and some of the customers/partners have the SSL/Signing/Encryption certificate with Oid parameters which our current SCBN doesn't support due to which it becomes very difficult to co...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Not under consideration

We need support for 277DRA (Data Reporting Acknowledgement X364)

In last meeting they did say they will provide companion guide in september. Here is the link if you want to know more: https://nyshc.health.ny.gov/documents/39436/108308/osds_qandadocument_issuer
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Support getApplicablePricingRulesForOrder API without an Order in Sterling Order Management similar to getOrderPrice

Today this API only works when an order is present in the system. Also, it ignores the order line items that are passed into it. It would be ideal if the order number is not mandatory and order line items passed into the API are used to return the...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

ITX - Document Extraction ( BATCH mode )

As we already have the feature on SI, SI document extraction map uses update commands to update Sender Id, Receiver Id and AcceptorLookupAlias (ALA) from the set of batch flat files. Since JSON file is only supported by ITX map and when we receiv...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct for zOS copying files to SNODE (Linux or Windows ) at the same time using a '*' mask to individual datasets

The client SERPRO would like that was possible in Connect:Direct CDP pull a list of datasets that meet your dataset mask with the '*' (for eg. ABCDEF*.TXT)and based on that list of datasets that match then to start copies each of the datasets one ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support or Ignore DOCTYPE tag n the XML payload gracefully rather than failing during REST request from 3rd party systems

OMS CoC need to Support or Ignore DOCTYPE tag n the XML payload gracefully rather than failing during REST request from 3rd party systems OMS is integrated with various 3rd party systems. DOCTYPE is XML standard and has been followed by variou...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

White list PROD IBMId IDP hosts for OMoC PRE and PROD envs as part of initial provisioning.

As part of the initial OMoC PRE and PROD env provisioning network setup it would be sensible to egress whitelist the IBMId SSO IDP hosts. idaas.iam.ibm.com / 104.121.86.210 . This would save time when setting up SSO and Federated SSO authenticatio...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Maps with JSON output cards are building very slowly

I have some maps in the design studio. They take 15 minutes each to build. While the build is occurring you can see exactly what is being checked in each map - that's how slow the build is. I have never come across this before. Normally you can't ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Config center - Validation of MAP and TXO during deployment

In Config Center when we deploy a map by uploading the map and txo there is a risk of selecting a wrong map and txo which the sytem doesn't validate.In such scenario the input file would process through a wrong TXO and would create issues to custo...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Map Interchange Contrl#, Group Contrl# and Transactionset Contrl# to Rule Macro

We have a list of macro functionality to use in the routing rule configurations in BPN. for example SUBSTRING, destinationfilename, DATETIME etc. Often times we get request from trading partners to use Interchange Contrl# in the destination file...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration