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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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Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 3 Not under consideration

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Connect Direct Adapter auto recovery

Case TS003985405 was raised to report that the Sterling B2B Integrator Connect Direct Server Adapter does not auto restart if the database connection is broken This leads to file transfer failures and requires a manual restart of the adapter If th...
about 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

CII ENVELOPE EXTRACTION PARAMETERS ARE NOT BEING PASSED TO CHILD BP WHEN INVOKE BP PER INTERCHANGE SET IN ENVELOPE

Parameters are not being passed from the system BPCIIEnvelope to the child bp when the Extract to aFile ststem is selected and invoke bp per interchange is setin the envelope. If an envelope is set for the option to Extract to a File and the assoc...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

Application should allow log tracing at app server level

In Production, there are cases where Support engineers need to debug an issue enabling verbose trace for an application server. However , the logging on a specific application server is not supported by IBM Sterling product.
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Providing a separate channel for interfaces (Mule Soft / SSIS / BizTalk) to connect to Cloud MQ.

Please provide separate channel / interface to connect to Cloud MQ in OM. This way it is easy for the dev team to isolate errors.
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration

Implement SelectMethod attribute for all OMS ListAPI

Suggest to include the SelectMethod handling as the standard attribute for all List APIs.
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Provide for consideration of in-store take-sales (non-order) / cash-and-carry when calculating node sell-thru - without impacting transaction quota

Today, Sterling provides for calculation of store node sell-through velocity based on the order fulfillment that OMS has visibility to by virtue of orchestrating orders. However, in practice, a given store node derives a large portion of its sell-...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to convert JSON payload to XML sent to asynchronous defined in OMS

OMS currently supports conversion of JSON payloads to XML if passed to REST endpoints defined from OMS. However, if there are asynchronous services defined in OMS using JMS/ MQ, it mandates that the inputs passed is always XML for consumption by O...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows. In our organization providing service accounts with 'Log on locally' permission is picked as a Non-standard security configuration and deviating from our s...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration