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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...
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...

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Standardized Usable Data Export and Re-import Feature for Tenant Decommissioning, M&A, and Data Migration Scenarios

This feature aims to provide a standardized process for exporting tenant data in usable, structured formats (e.g., CSV, JSON, database dump), which can also be re-imported into existing tenants if needed. The current approach often results in unus...
1 day ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Database for IV

Need a read only database to connect to that shows all supply and demand records, quantities, ship nodes, sourceTs, segment info, etc. from IV. This will help with data cleanup and visibility. We have no way of knowing about stale data unless we q...
7 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Global variables in MFT

It is required to enable the use of global variable in MFT, so you can configure different paths, email address, ... based on environments.
10 days ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

The max carrier service capacity should be considered by SIP Optimizer when selecting a carrier service

During holidays, ULTA have carrier services that impose caps on the number of packages. For example, they only want to ship 1000 packages using Fedex Ground for that day. Any more packages cannot be shipped by Fedex Ground on that day. So SIP Opti...
5 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Record API.MAX reports in statistics.

Record API.MAX reports in statistics to support CD tunning.
6 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable Search and Replace functionality through Codelist

Currently B2Bi SAAS have options to Search and Replace characters through map and BPNST rules. However, the customer is looking for easier solution, where instead of the customer would like to add the HEXCODE of the Problematic characters into the...
6 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Submitted

Support ICAP Virus scan for Forward Proxy connections

Sterling customers that receive data from partners benefit from ICAP streaming virus scan. However, most customers support both file transfer motions where SFG/B2Bi reach out to partners to move files as well. This reach out (listening producer) s...
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Submitted

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

include attachment with error info in email indicating ingestion failure

Creating this cause as directed in case TS017610463 Configuration file data is loaded into SIP-Optimizer via the file transfer adapter https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/intelligent-promising?topic=id-downloading-installing-configuring-sterling-intellige...
6 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Add Ability to Lockout Accounts, System Wide, When Using SFTP Server Adapter

When an SFTP Lockout Policy is configured, we can specify the number of passwords an account can try before being locked out. This works great with a single SFTP Adapter. However, if multiple adapters are configured with a load balancer in from of...
6 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted