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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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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available in ru...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

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. ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

Be able to control GS Control number format for ANSI X12 data

The WebMethods cloud product formats the GS level control number to be padded with leading 0s. This field is a variable length field and by the standard, should be sent without the leading 0s. As of today, we have to manually add a step in the flo...
22 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Allow different Node Balancing Cost (NBC) parameters by Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The SLA configuration we have loaded has values of Standard, 1Day, and 2Day. Is it possible to have different node balancing configuration values (Tiebreaker cost, Backlog Threshold, Overcapacity Penalty) for each node that vary by SLA? For exampl...
22 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

"Read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups

It would be interesting for our business model to have a "read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups. This way, they can see what is in the menu but cannot make any changes. There are "read-only" options in various pa...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed

It would be interesting if the Active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed on files and folders in the Web Client, such as copying, pasting, deleting, cloning, or moving to another location. This would allow us to have a rec...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Capacity calculation to honor Node's locale

Since Capacity is used to control the number of fulfillments to be done from a particular ship node (either Store or DC), its critical to have the capacity calculation is done in the DC's locale instead of UTC. We have this requirement at Lands En...
23 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

ITXA needs to check the ST02 control number ONLY within the current interchange for HIPAA, NOT against transactions from prior interchanges

APAR PH20861 https://github.ibm.com/ITXA/spe-features/issues/40 The update partially satisfies the healthcare needs required by the company.The property enveloping.CHECK_DUPSEQ_ST_CONTROL_NUMBERS_WITHIN_INTERCHANGE=YES introduced with APAR PH20861...
23 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Prepare to support EBICS v4.0

EBICS is a banking standard used by banks and corporations in Europe for payments, cash and treasury management etc. The EBICS organisation is looking to build on the harmonisation introduced in EBICS v3, introduced in 2018, focusing on: EBICS V 4...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Archived document should always contains both input and output data even though there are multiple processing steps.

I have noticed that, for a flow, IBM is receiving the files from the trading partner with the CII format and converting them to XML format before sending them to the customer, and finally, the customer is receiving XML files from IBM. In this flow...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration