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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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Individual Status Messaging: On a batched IB EDI File with Deenveloping

Currently, the de-envelope service processes a single file containing multiple ISA/UNB/UNA interchanges by splitting and translating each interchange individually without any preprocess split. However, status messages configured at the de-envelope...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Update outdated Struts jars in product

Current version of Struts v2.5.33 included on Sterling Order Management product is obsolete and not supported any more. It contains known critical security vulnerability (fileUpload), but also might contain other ones which are not revealed. It pu...

Introduce new field Count of Work Queues into Bulk list view

Recommending the introduction of new field for Bulk list view (Items) to allow a user to see if the item is currently on a Work Queue. This could be shown as a count or perhaps a Yes. Additionally, the ability to see which work queues. This would ...
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

InFlight API needs to support filters for multiple matching values

InFlight API needs to support filters for multiple matching values For example, I often need to search for both 810 and 880 documents. It would be helpful if we could run a single query for doc_type = (810,880).
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

InFlight API limit does not work for values greater than 200

The InFlight API limit does not work for values greater than 200. The value of 200 is the default. If set to greater than 200 an error is returned. This is a problem as I need to filter results by fields like reference number, that are not current...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Need to include ReferenceNumber and ProcessID to InFlight API filters

Please add ReferenceNumber and ProcessID to the list of InFlight API filters Currently the REST query parameters are limited to the following: direction (INBOUND, OUTBOUND) status (SUCCESS, FAILURE) state (IN_PROGRESS, COMPLETE, INCOMPLETE) doc_ty...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Azure Blob Storage Service Principal

Request that IBM update the object store client adapter to support authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would support configuring...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

C:X should log user authentication activity

Currently C:X logs user activity like add/delete/update of documents (since C:X 150-16 iFix10). But for audit requirements it is also necessary to track user authentication activity.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 4 Needs more information