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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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IBM Sterling B2B Integrator - Automated way -Existing Customer data - examine ssh pub keys with size

Refer Case details response - Case number# TS010477941
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Needs more information

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

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

Alert Notification for pre-processing and post processing steps Delay (AS2, Doc extract and processing delays)

ASN notifications for customers. SLAs with customers which require ASNs to be sent within a 29 minute window. Failures in pre-processing steps are not visible in Inflight until doc extract is completed and translation action is processing.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Allow Sterling Integrator to support STARTTLS SMTP when connecting to MS Office 365

I am geting the following error java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:java.rmi.RemoteException: B2BMailSMTPImpl, mail cannot be sent because of an exception received from the server; nested except...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Suggest a New Non Billable mailslot

When we onboard a new Trading partner for a VAN Customer, we create a non billable MQslot for a Trading partner using SQSF8xxx or SGIODxxx mailbox, implementers have to search for a new unused mailslot in MB01 by using various combination for the ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

To eliminate duplicate certificate in inflight import

Multiple teams import various certificates into legacy inflight, which results in duplicate certificates getting uploaded with a different name while the serial numbers for most of the certificates are same. When we import the certificate into Inf...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration