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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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Lead times on the combination of node and item level (B2B)

we propose the following enhancement:​ For calculating ESD and EDD, OOB OMS should consider lead times based on the combination of Node (Ship Node) and Item level. Additionally, the selection of parameters to be considered—individually or in combi...
10 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

For calculating ESD and EDD of Sales Order, OMS should consider receiving calendar too

we propose the following enhancement:​ - For calculating ESD and EDD, OOB OMS should take in consideration both the Ship Node and Receiving Node calendars for Sales Orders too​
10 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Whenever the receiving node is marked as "OFF" in OrderHub, the system should prevent order creation.​ In case the order is created and the receiving node is inactive, automatically move order to a "Backordered" status during scheduling, regardless of the AssumeInfiniteInventory flag or actual inventory maintenance in OMS.​

IBM Sterling OMS currently supports backordering only when the Ship Node is marked as dirty and the AssumeInfiniteInventory flag is either set to 'N' or null.​ In this setup, if the inventory is not maintained and AssumeInfiniteInventory = Y, the ...
10 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Enable SIP to securely publish/subscribe to Kafka topics using mutual TLS authentication for secure data exchange

We are currently in the process of deploying SIP services on AWS. As part of this initiative, we need to integrate with our existing Kafka infrastructure at Adidas, which enforces mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. To support this, we are exploring...
11 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Under review

Container deployment or upgrade may not work in shared environments

There's been a few cases pointed out where the B2BI/SFG example container scripts for creating SCCs, Cluster Roles, Rolebindings, etc do not work in shared environments. This is interfering with deployments and upgrades in shared environments. In ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 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...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR)

Also See: RFI # 2776: Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR) | X12 Add a logic to Hipaa compliance check, such that diagnosis pointer used in SV107 in 837P PACDR, and SV311 in 837D PACDR, does NOT exceed the number of diag codes used in HI segment.
22 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Submitted

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
23 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Add Conection to ISERIES Servers

Hello, We need to connect Steling control Center Director to ISERIES Servers to manage the configurations of netmap, secure+, Userfile. Actually its not possible with this software (SCCDirector). We are managing more thant 1500 servers with connec...
23 days ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted