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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...
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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...
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Ability to HOLD data at IBM during customer's maintenance window and RELEASE it after maintenance (SAP ALE Connections)

Couple of protocols like CD allows IBM to HOLD inbound data during customer's maintenance/outage window and release it when their system is back to normal. We don't have similar "HOLD" mechanism with other protocols like SAP ALE adapter. For Proto...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Specific Version Map Deployment in Config Hub

Ceva is seeking an improvement on the config hub or a method to select specific versions for deployment. Example:Map Name: CEVA_WMS_SEPHORA_I_INSDES_XML_XML The map provided in CTE is version 2.2, while the Production environment operates on versi...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Use helm template variable ".Release.Namespace" for lookup in network-policy-egress

In a shared cluster environment, access to the "default" namespace is restricted. The use of the variable ".Release.Namespace" would ensure the Helm templates are dynamically adjusted to the correct namespace for helm install or upgrade.
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Environment field on Client Adapters on containerized installation

Currently All ASI nodes available as environment to choose to run on nodes independently only for specific client adapters on containerized installation of B2BI. This should be made available at least on FTP, SFTP and HTTP Client adapters as in th...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025
13 days ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Please include both userIDs in the SMF 132 record for SU - Select User events for the CDz authorization file.

The CDz SMF 132 record records a wealth of data. Batch JCL for CDz execution allows the command "SEL USER WHERE (USERID=(*)) EXCLUDE = (AUTH)" to list users in the CDz authorization file. You (IBM CDz development support) display both userIDs in t...
25 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Added a feature to support multiple wildcards in file masks for SFTP file retrieval, enabling patterns such as "*filename*.xml" to be used in regular expressions for more flexible file matching

Added a feature to support multiple wildcards in file masks for SFTP file retrieval, enabling patterns such as "*filename*.xml" to be used in regular expressions for more flexible file matching
26 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Integrate a feature to move files to an archive directory directly through the SFTP protocol layer, without needing to set up a flow

Integrate a feature to move files to an archive directory directly through the SFTP protocol layer, without needing to set up a flow
26 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Build "Mass Data Compare Tool" that can handle comparing any payload formats in bulk

Customer wants IBM to compare their post translated data between SCBN outputs and outputs from their on-premise systems. They want to pump 3-4 months worth of data via new solution and have all those files compared against similar outputs from the...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Not under consideration

Request to Implement FLAG-Based ERN Alerts

ERN configurations rely heavily on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to trigger alerts to the users. This system works well if the sender/receiver/doctype is resolved by the time failure happens. However, if a failure occurs before the met...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

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