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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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Enable Certificate Extraction Utility & Supported Ciphers Display in ConfigHub

Requirement: Enable Certificate Extraction Utility in ConfigHub UI (like what we have in B2Bi PODS today). We are also requesting an option to display supported ciphers by the remote end point. How does this help? IBM internal teams (Support &...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Global Seach Capability across all customer/trading partner connections in ConfigHub

As we are moving to new HTTP Adapter on cloud & moving all the connection configurations to ConfigHub, we would like to request the below Enhancement Requirement: For the benefit of IBM support & services teams, it is necessary to have a g...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

The support of T2S had been requesed in 2022 but was't taken into consideration. We are resubmitting this request to be reconsidered for the next ITX Financial Payments roadmap. Banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPa...
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

TP Names Import/Export inbuilt option in Inflight

During testing phase in inflight CTE, we keep on adding TP names and when we go live we need to update the same to production (may be with different names sometimes). We have RPA Bot to add TP names to inflight, but if we have an inbuilt function ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0

Support to update trading partner (partner profile) data or ask to remove their data or configuration in SFG

Based a regulations like GDPR and LGPD customer needs do provide to their trading partners the option to update the trading partner profile thru myFG 2.0 or even an option to remove or download their data.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

BULK Attachment option to add in BULK Edit

At Present, while creating a bulk workflow -- we need to go into each item to add an attachment (e.g. if create a Bulk workflow of 100 materials, then we need to go into each material 100 times to add an attachment to have a future reference) It ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

JSON Layout Generator

As part of Map Change team we receive requests for JSON map development. JSON maps layout will be differ from typical maps as the expected output is human readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arr...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

We would like the ability to add docs/pictures to materials in bulk.

After performing annual inventory counts, there are many useful pictures that we would like to be able to upload at once. In attention to pictures, there may be spec sheets from the manufacturer, test records, etc. It can be time consuming to add ...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration