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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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Ability to reset data in non prod environments.

It would be great if IBM could provide the ability to reset the data in Sterling IV or the ability to roll back to an older data snapshot. This will help the clients a lot. Right now, we are asked to use APIs to do it, which is not efficient and...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Planned for future release

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Add a comments field in customization UI

There must be a comments field in customization UI while adding entries to customer_overrides.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Allow email address to use as user ID

We have requirement to use email address as the user ID in sterling integrator.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

PEPPOL Invoice/Application Response generated via XML validation report using Generic Status option

For PEPPOL Implementation, the Invoice/Application response are generated based on the outcome of the validation service report. The error message from the report is used to put in the Response message back to partner. In current flow, we cannot u...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Validation Service Report should be sent as ERN to Customer

Similar to ERN report we have today in SCBN, the new validation services used for PEPPOL flow do generate error report on failure after running via open library/Schematron. But, these error reports are not sent as ERN. We don't have option to sele...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Add Output File Size to Filter List in InFlight

Add a new filter that allows customers to search by the Output File Size. This should have an 'Equal / Greater Than / Less Than (Variable Condition). We should ALSO make this field available as a Column Selection in InFlight so customers can "show...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Extend the REST API Client Service to allow for Bearer Token as an authorization method

When connecting to the PayPal REST API's for invoicing they require Bearer Token authorization. The token is retrieved from an API that uses Basic authentication.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Allow passwords longer than 28 characters for LDAP users

The password field on the SBI dashboard login page is restricted to a maximum of 28 characters. However external users who are using LDAP for authentication can have passwords longer than this value, which makes it impossible for these users to lo...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release