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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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Support different version of OS in cluster

As customer is planning to increase the number of nodes (e.g 50) in Sterling B2B Integrator, different OS will be adopted in near future. They request that Sterling B2B Integrator should support different version of OS in cluster.
14 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Future consideration

"Forgot password" feature in myFG2.0 application

Today, if one of our partners who uses myFG2.0 loses their password, they must contact us to request a new password. With the large number of partners we have, password loss events have become frequent and the recovery method, via email or phone, ...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 2 Future consideration

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users.

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users and help to refer the shipment/order linked to transaction type of the inventory change. Example below In Inventory audit details screen in Order Hub UI the Reference...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

Fix the duplicate messaging issue for mailbox ftp/sftp server adapters

IBM says in their documentation that duplicate messages are allowed by default and is controlled by a parameter in the mailbox.properties file (disallowDuplicateMessages= false). This is inaccurate, We are seeing errors where duplicate filenames a...
9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Sharepoint Adapter in IBM Sterling Integrator

After the troubleshooting session with IBM L2 support and our M365 engineer, we have established that IBM Sterling is ONLY able to connect to sharepoint when the site is setup with "/sites" but we would like IBM Sterling to be able to connect to S...

Make Open Telemetry available in CCM

Please make Open telemetry available in CCM. CCM should be able to monitor 1) Queue depth from MQ perspective 2) Loss of connectivity between B2Bi and MQ server. Refer to Idea CCM1-I-382 This was the issue we had in production MQ serve...
10 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Submitted

Urgent Support Request – SharePoint Adopter Configuration

Hi Team, I have successfully set up the connection to SharePoint using the IBM-provided SharePoint adopter, and it is functioning as expected—a highly effective solution. However, the current configuration requires passing the site name with...

To provide provision to set up Granular level access

Hello Team, Currently we only have Object level acces at Sterling Integrator, but we would like to implement stricter control over Bank and Finance ones, so could Granular level access be set up along with Object level access for Maps , BP's and t...