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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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Config Hub Codelist download in CTE/Production must have filename prefix or suffix - CTE/PROD/Business Alias

When an SME is trying to download codelist from CTE/Production via Config Hub both of them have the same file name which creates to much confusion, Can we have a prefix or suffix as CTE or PROD or at least Business Alias that can indicate from whi...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Config Hub Codelist interface to reflect number of entries in a codelist for each version

Can we have the user interface updated to reflect the number of entries that exist in each version of the codelist, so that whenever a new entry is added, SME is confident about the deployment. Currently, in some instances, we are checking in the ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

"Read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups

It would be interesting for our business model to have a "read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups. This way, they can see what is in the menu but cannot make any changes. There are "read-only" options in various pa...
about 2 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed

It would be interesting if the Active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed on files and folders in the Web Client, such as copying, pasting, deleting, cloning, or moving to another location. This would allow us to have a rec...
about 2 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

myfilegateway GUI popup messages

We are using IBM MyFileGateway v1.0 solution for HTTPs file transfer. Our customers are using this portal for upload/download files over HTTPs. Our Internal Business Team raised serious concerns over UI observations/issues which are easily noticea...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Functionality already exists

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Archived document should always contains both input and output data even though there are multiple processing steps.

I have noticed that, for a flow, IBM is receiving the files from the trading partner with the CII format and converting them to XML format before sending them to the customer, and finally, the customer is receiving XML files from IBM. In this flow...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration