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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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Send all Partner related Events / activity to ICC

We are looking for some kind of report from SSP / ICC that would provide all the activity happening in SSP related to partners login attempt. At any point of time, we should be able to generate a report by partner to find out. how many successful ...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Planned for future release

Simple silent upgrade for Connect Direct Web Services

According to IBM Support, for Connect Direct Web Services software, SILENT UPGRADE option requires to provide few additional parameters to silentInstall.properties file (e.g. SSL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD) in comparison to INTERAC...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 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

Support for Mac M1/M2 users running OnPrem containers.

On Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10Fix Pack: 37 (10.0.2209.2) When running the Fixpack 37 in the local docker environment, the SMCFS container is getting terminated with error code 255. While investigating the issue, found that this is due to running...
9 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

Map name in InFlight Configure columns section.

In the outbound scenario sometimes we have seen for same TP ISA ID we will have different maps being used and having map name in configure column would help to list all the maps being used by the same TP. In some cases we have seen TP comes up wit...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Add DVG and submitter ID fields to All File Transfer Services APIs in Control Center 6.1

Requesting to add submitter and data visibility group (DVG) to all file transfer services APIs, especially Get Completed Files List and Read FileTransfers. Current APIs are limited and there is no way to restrict the return results per partner/sub...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Order Hub: Streamline Inventory Adjustments across Segments

In prior R2 release, we only had RTL and RTL Store Segments. As such inventory adjustments to a Store Segment occurred as follows: Run an inventory search for a specific Retail Store Segment (RTL-XXX). The inventory adjust logic automatically decr...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Global Mailbox needs to have a sample Mailbox Message Delete BP or Documentation demonstrating the best methods for deleting Global Mailbox Messages

Currently Global Mailbox does not have any out of the box Mailbox Message Delete BP. B2Bi has the Mailbox Scheduled Delete Service which can be configured to delete traditional mailbox messages. This service can list all the mailboxes and allow fo...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Planned for future release

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Track users' changes for each item

This feature can be implemented as a new widget in item form or a new tab under Recent activity widget along with Note and workflow and only should display changes that users have made to an item. It's kind of an audit log and can be used in troub...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release