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ITXA should require user passwords be changed at least yearly. Preferably every 90 days.

End user passwords are not forced to be reset. According to best practice security standards they shoudl be changed every 90 days or yearly. ITXA has no forced password change functionality. There shoudl be foreced password change based on time. F...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Enable Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) via Active Directory Integration for Sterling B2Bi/SFG

Currently, Sterling B2Bi/SFG relies on local group configurations for role-based access control (RBAC), which creates operational overhead and limits centralized governance. We propose introducing native integration with Active Directory (AD) to m...
15 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Native Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Support in Sterling B2B Integrator for Enhanced Security

Currently, Sterling B2B Integrator relies on external components (such as SSP) or custom integrations to enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for internal and privileged users. This creates additional complexity and overhead for organizations...
15 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

AS2 support for CEM message format

As Sectigo and other Certificate Authority (CA) providers increasingly implement frequent certificate upgrades to strengthen security, the need for automated certificate management solutions becomes more critical. A proven approach, already adopte...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Submitted

Private Key Authentication for JDBC Connections

Our current Sterling 6.1.2 is connecting to Snowflake DB using JDBC (Snowflake driver) with username/password authentication method. Now, due to security reasons, the Snowflake is enforcing private key authentication (.p8) instead of password. But...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Run REORG only when needed

Reduce the time it takes for db-verify to run. Currently it seems that db-verify runs the REORG command more than needed. Our DBA recommends instead to run it only when the result of this query is true: SELECT ( (NUM_REORG_REC_ALTERS > 0) or ('...
16 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

To remove the specific ZipCodes entries from YFS_ZIP_CODE_LOCATION table

We have a requirement to remove some specific ZipCodes from YFS_ZIP_CODE_LOCATION table. So, we followed the following documents and steps: - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/order-management?topic=application-updating-additional-sql-data We tried to...
18 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

VDA standards missing in IBM ITX

After checking with IBM ITX Support, we confirmed that there is no out-of-the-box type tree available for the VDA Standard. We request that a VDA (German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie)) type tree be include...
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Submitted

Get the list of SKU's against node which are fulfillment allowed disabled using IV API

Business use case We would like to have solution or IV API to get the list of SKU's which are fulfillment allowed disabled against the nodes. Even with Inventory audit api we are not able to identify why and when sku against node fulfillment allow...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Cleanly handle EBICS Requests with no post data or methods other than POST

Customers regularly receive requests to the EBICS URL which have no post data. This causes the EBICS handler BP to throw a NULL document error creating noise in the logs and meaning the BP fails. Sometimes this is just an error but often the EBICS...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted