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Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Capabilities to connect to Google Cloud Storage bucket

Currently there is no adapter or services which enables us to connect to a Google cloud storage bucket. It would be really good to have this functionality.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Planned for future release

NCPDP Repetitive fields issue

Hello IBM, There are a few repetitive fields in NCPDP type tree (We are using v51 HISTORY) that when client sends data but skips the first fields and sends data in subsequent fields, ITX typetree treats it as coming in order thus we are not able t...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Planned for future release

Automate certificate management

TLS cert life spans are going to become very short by 2029 (https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days). This effectively means that everyone who uses Sterling file transfer products will have to have...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Enable SIP to securely publish/subscribe to Kafka topics using mutual TLS authentication for secure data exchange

We are currently in the process of deploying SIP services on AWS. As part of this initiative, we need to integrate with our existing Kafka infrastructure at Adidas, which enforces mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. To support this, we are exploring...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enable file exchange access to IBM Sterling Global High Availability Mailbox with Connect:Direct

Connect:Direct has the ability to transfer files using several application files storage platforms such as local files, NFS, S3, and others. This could be extended to support direct access to B2B Integrator mailboxes and, in particular, to Global ...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Not under consideration

Include ForgeRock Directory LDAP service to IBM officially supported list

We're using ForgeRock Directory service in LDAP and enabled HTTP password policy. But got an issue that the warming message will be changing randomly with multiple login attempted. case has been raised to IBM but they noticed that ForgeRock Direct...
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 2 Under review

Return Order for component level not allowing in Call Center but it is allowing in Order Hub

Hi Team, We are testing the use where trying to create return for the component level. Steps: 1. We have created Bundle Item with Bundle Fulfillment Mode as Ship Independent(00) along with component items- Shared XML in the document. 2. Order crea...
4 months ago in Call Center 0 Under review

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Confirm Shipment accounting for PO ordering unit of measure

Idea Summary: Currently, Confirm Shipment is failing when the ASN is sent by the supplier in the PO ordering UOM and the API is not doing the conversion from the item ordering unit of measure to the item inventory unit of measure. The idea is to h...
11 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration