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Add native support for connecting to Db2 using TLS 1.3 in IBM ITXA

Our ITXA instances (version 10.x) run on RHEL 8 and connect to Db2 11.5.9 databases. Security policy mandates that all encrypted channels move to TLS 1.3 by Q4 2025. Db2 has offered TLS 1.3 since 11.5.8, enabled with SSL_VERSIONS TLSV12,TLSV13 .Ho...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

Allow Remote Profiles to have two passwords attached (Primary and Backup)

Attempt passwords in order when establishing the remote connection When a password is updated, automatically move the current value to the backup password and set the new value to the primary password. For key-based authentication, allow primary a...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

To cancel the reservation, when pick is manually shorted by the user in the UI

When pick is manually shorted by the user in the UI, the pick get cancelled. Expected Behavior : On pick cancellation from UI, reservation should be cancelled. Actual Behavior : On pick cancellation from UI, reservation is still active.
about 2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Incase of zero inventory, When reservation is created. IBM needs to provide error in the reservation response instead of sending just the line_id.

Incase of zero inventory, When reservation is created. IBM needs to provide error in the reservation response instead of sending just the line_id. This will help us not place an order as there is no inventory in IV
about 2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Mailbox permission rights via REST API

Currently, the only way to set the rights on a mailbox (e.g. READ, WRITE, EXECUTE, etc) is to edit the XML used by the Import and Export Service. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.1?topic=integrator-mailbox-permission-rights The Mailb...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Extend field length in table SBIADMIN.SCI_ENTITY_EXTNS to accommodate longer encrypted passwords

We are working to configure the Object Client Store Adapter as documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=z-object-store-client-adapter When we attempt to use/store the encrypted credential, our Trading Partners become co...

Add feature on SharePoint Client Adapter to use display name of the document library.

On Sterling B2B Integrator, SharePoint Client Adapter has limitation that display and internal should be same on document library but in real world we have scenario that display and internal name is different and due to this, Sterling is unable to...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Extended Status Representation for Delivery Status and Current Process Status

The current versions have a limited number of statuses. In SFG, the Delivery Status has either Started, Succeeded (Routed), Failed, or Ignored. In B2B, the Current Processes Status has a stoplight style image that is either Red (failure) or Green ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Using Generic Inbound GS and ST Envelopes

We have data that comes in with multiple GS ID values for the senders. If one of those GS envelope IDs is not included in ITX-A, the entire payload fails with a missing envelope entry. We need to process all the valid envelopes and not process the...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Read-only capability of Sterling File Gateway

We request a read-only option for Sterling File Gateway. The current setup allows us to create partner profiles and routing channels, but we need the ability to grant certain users read-only permissions so they can simply view existing configurati...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 0 Submitted