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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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Request to decouple the OrderHub OIDC functionality from SBC in IBM OMS to enable independent operation of OrderHub's authentication.

Decoupling the OrderHub OIDC functionality from SBC would allow organizations to manage OrderHub's authentication independently. This change reduces dependency on SBC. Additionally, organizations that do not use SBC and are not part of smcfs.ear c...
28 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Perimeter Server Monitoring

Please add alerting in Control Center Monitor if Perimeter Server/Servers is/are down when SI comes back up. Currently there are events generated if Perimeter Server goes from enabled to disabled status and connected to disconnected status when SI...
30 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Support Encrypted ZIP Files

We got a request to extract the files from an encrypted ZIP file and provide them to a shared volume. Today Active Transfer does not support decryption during ZIP extraction. It would also be useful if there is an option to specify an encryption p...
about 1 month ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Provide alternative to GZip when downloading upgrade job logs through CCD

Many large corporations lock down employee workstations meaning new software cannot be installed and Gzip is not included it makes it very hard to view the upgrade logs without gaining access to the C:D node which somewhat defeats the object of us...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Show date max sessions reached and allow reset

Provide mechanisms to show the date that the high watermark session count for a node was last reached under License Management or to reset the high watermark to be calculated from a set date when displaying it in License Management.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

Add Interchange Syntax Extension (ISX) from 2017 version 007040 forward to Sterling Envelope options

Walmart planned to do our first 008010 Purchase order will full UTF-8 encoding and defined release character support. We have an ITX map to support it but the Sterling Enveloping options are missing any 'include ISX' options. Why is this needed? W...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Add Solace to list of supported integration adapters in SDF

We are using Solace PubSub+ platform and is hoping to have OOB product support from OMS for integration with Solace. It is a popular growing platform that has been adopted by many customers across the globe and industry
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Export Wizard Command Line should have resource tag option

The export/import wizard command line does not have all the options as the GUI. The command line is used if there is a need to export large amount of objects. Doing large volume export in the GUI can lead to timeouts. In general, the command line ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Under review

Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted