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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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SIGNON command could provide a parameter for the message file and process library

It is useful for the SIGNON command to provide additional CDz software file specification parameters like the NETMAP parameter. This allows a user to use the same JCL procedure but able to override DDs within the control cards of CDz's SYSIN witho...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Browser compatibility

Currently IBM Sterling OMS can be opened only through Internet Explorer, please make it compatible through Chrome, FireFox and all other browsers.
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Java 64 bit implementation for Application Manager

In my team, everybody having Java 32 bit even I also downgraded to 32 bit which can support 9.5 Console-> Configuration -> Launch Application Manager. We seen that if we use 64 bit, then Application Manager we not able to Launch. Once we mov...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Meet the new names for huge and tiny numbers: The metric system has gotten an update

Numbers may be infinite, but our names for them aren't. That's why the metric system just got an update. Woodward Academy vs Langston Hughes Live Several new prefixes have been introduced to describe incredibly large and incredibly small numbers. ...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Not under consideration

A Lasting Legacy of COVID: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths

WASHINGTON — Not long after Randy Watt died of COVID-19, his daughter Danielle sat down at her computer, searching for clues as to why the smart and thoughtful man she knew had refused to get vaccinated. She pulled up Google, typed in a screen nam...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Not under consideration

Message received at M & M but Inflight has not received a response that it is processed.

A report which provides more indepth information on the the Invoice details, where the file is processed from IBM side to the client but an acknowledgment is not received from client. For Example, If an autoDx invoice is processed from Trading p...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Red Hat Linux clustering/HA support

A number of clients ask about about HA solutions and clustering support for Connect:Direct with Red Hat Linux. I've had a search around, but only found the usual (old) docs on HA support with AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows. I was trying to find somethi...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

gmsa account

Azure provide GMSA account for their customers . As per IBM (Case TS011227338) IBM is not supporing GMSA account for installation .
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

User Access management Enhancement - Archiving users

Some clients have hundreds of user accounts that are "inactive" accounts due to user turnover for instances that are a decade old. The accounts need to be retained so the user action/notes retain integrity, however it would be useful to have an "a...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration