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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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Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Enhance CLI with Inbound/Outbound Access Expiry Management and More Specific Failure Return Codes

Add commands to the IBM Sterling CLI to manage inbound/outbound access expiration dates and generate new ones, and include more granular return codes for failures. Description:Currently, IBM Sterling CLI provides a basic return code of 0 for succe...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Needs more information

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Move $CL codelists from Legacy InFlight UI to Config Center UI under the company's Business Alias

When using $CL (codelist lookups via the Rules Engine), those codelists must be loaded to and maintained on Legacy InFlight UI. These codelists are difficult to update and maintain, cannot be exported, and also are not visible to clients using Con...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement Request: API for Automating FS Virtual Roots Creation for SFTP Server Adapters in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

Dear IBM Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request an enhancement for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. Our team is looking to automate the creation of FS Virtual Roots for use with SFTP server adapters. However, we have been un...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Allow Admin users to export the list of configured users, application access, and data filter details in Excel format

In the IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Hub, under Customer Company > Managed Users & Groups, all configured users for the company are listed. Currently, the system does not allow ADMIN users to export the configured user details in a spre...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Config Center Status message specific to X12/EDIFACT FA’s

We require an enhancement to the C:Center Status message profiles to allow for the selection of 'Input_Doc' as a Target Document when triggering status messages for Functional Acknowledgements (997/CONTRL). Currently, when the conditions 'EDIFACT ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Individual Status Messaging: On a batched IB EDI File with Deenveloping

Currently, the de-envelope service processes a single file containing multiple ISA/UNB/UNA interchanges by splitting and translating each interchange individually without any preprocess split. However, status messages configured at the de-envelope...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
9 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration