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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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CDT Import and Export Ydk prefs save option in SST insted of manually copying

When we do CDT, we are pasting YDK prefs manually in SST, this may cause an issue due to human error. if we have an option to save this file in SST, will be helpful and human errors will be mitigated.
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

Managed AS2

Trying to make a new connection with Tracelink in order to transfer serial# information for drug products to comply with Pharmaceutical Industry Serialization requirements.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

AzureClientForB2Bi adapter documentation

We are trying to connect to Azure blob using Adapter - AzureClientForB2Bi but we could not find any detail documentation about various file processing we need to do by connecting to Blob. Please help with documentation.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

getOrderList API should provide one unioned, sorted result set across active and history records

Today's implementation of getOrderList API makes two calls under the hood - one to archive tables and one to active tables (assuming archive switch was invoked in the call.) Almost *no* consumer of order history wants two separate lists, each sort...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

BPN Rules levels with "Default with condition / Last preference with condition" option

We know the Default option in the BPN ST rules has the last preference when conditions are not matched. If we can have an extra option "Default with the condition" which works similarly to the "Default" option but it checks the condition. If still...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Implement Password rules for FTP(s) and SFTP Server Adapter External Authentication

Our platform is using IBM Sterling Integrator 6.1.1 Not using Sterling Secure Proxy All the accounts are created using local LDAP on the app servers. These accounts do not use IBM Sterling Authentication. FTP(s) or SFTP Following are the requireme...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration

Update Installation Manager to use installed version of java

SBI currently requires IIM to install. IIM comes packaged with its own version of Java, which is typically out of date and (as instructed in a PMR) cannot be updated independently to bring into compliance. If IIM could be configured to use an inst...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Not under consideration

Segregate PR and PP JMS properties instead of overloading them into one and forcing 2 copies of MountFiles

If embedded JMS is used, the Partner Repository and Partner Provisioner use different values in the same property "enable_jms_features" in Setup.cfg file. This makes it imperative to create two distinct copies of the entire MountFiles directory to...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Tracking variables [PF1, Pf2 etc] in Inflight Event Details

The variables [like ProcessingFlag1/Flag2/Flag3 etc] for each transaction are being set either at the BPN ST rule level or Map or both. At present, the Event details for the Sucess/Error messages don't have these values tracked in Inflight. Is t...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Support updates for Alias Netmap.

Per IBM Presently Control Center cannot directly update the Alias. We need this to be able to support full netmap updates.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration