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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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Find and review shared data

We use the "interested parties" feature to share products between organization. Once an item (document, product, EPC, facility, event) is shared with another organization, there is nowhere (and no API endpoints) to check what have been shared exac...
3 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Not under consideration

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Having a column that shows the value of the min changes being made before upload

My problem is I would like to know the value of the changes I'm making before it gets uploaded back to us. There are a few options which I will rank in favourability A column showing the value of the min change for that item (eg calculated formula...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

IBM to test AMQP protocol in IBM OMS v10.1 with IBM MQ 9.3 setup and permit configuration of custom Context Factories

IBM to test AMQP protocol in IBM OMS v10.1 with IBM MQ 9.3 setup and permit configuration of custom Context Factories Case number TS017045138
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Request to Implement FLAG-Based ERN Alerts

ERN configurations rely heavily on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to trigger alerts to the users. This system works well if the sender/receiver/doctype is resolved by the time failure happens. However, if a failure occurs before the met...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Request to Implement FLAG-Based InFlight Data Filters

InFlight data filters rely on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to display documents to users. This system works well for successful documents. However, if a failure occurs before the metadata (Sender, Receiver, Doctype) is resolved, those...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Regular expression flexibility for Search and Replace Xprocessor in BPNST Tool

Currently we have search and replace xprocessor for search a specific character/sequence of characters and replace with another character/sequence of another characters and if we need more characters to be search and replace then it's time taking ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Support Acknowledgement Reconciliations for NONEDI flows

We are currently supporting acknowledgment reconciliations for OUTBOUND EDI documents only based on inbound "997/CONTRL" documents. Customer wants IBM to support acknowledgement reconciliations for NONEDI interfaces as well. They are sending outbo...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Oracle DB credentials rotations with zero downtime for OMS

Hi IBM, We have an internal security compliance requirement to meet the rotation policy for DB passwords. In the process, Can you please let us know if 1) there are any in-built OOB utilities of sterling OMS to achieve this DB password rotation co...
4 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under 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...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration