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PEM API Test Capability

The PEM API documentation page does not provide a sample input and output message format for the APIs. Some of the API inputs are not intuitive and difficult to get to the correct format accepted by the APIs. If there is an easier API test capabil...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Delivered

Ability to "configure" the location of files created in the ITX Design Studio directory

The "IBM Sterling Transformation Extender Design Studio" application writes a log file in the root directory of the installation folder. Example is the "ttmaker.log" generated when we import a Type Tree through the XML Schema Importer. IDEA: Abili...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Docker Image for Sterling Connect:Direct

Almost all IBM integration tools (Datapower,IIB, MQ, WAS) has docker image. I got to know there is no Docker image for Connect:Direct.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 14 Delivered

BULK Attachment option to add in BULK Edit

At Present, while creating a bulk workflow -- we need to go into each item to add an attachment (e.g. if create a Bulk workflow of 100 materials, then we need to go into each material 100 times to add an attachment to have a future reference) It ...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

ICC Support of SMTP with SSL/TLS encryption

Most modern SMTP Service require SMTP/s to leverage their services. IBM B2Bi supports this but ICC does not. This makes it hard to find an SMTP service that meets or clients email needs.

File Agent doesn’t support Certificate-based authentication, it will be difficult for us to manage the passwords on File Agent authentications.

We have around 35,000 Connect:Direct nodes and File Agents will be deployed across all the stores. We have a password policy where the passwords are going to expire every 90 days, Maintenance of these many nodes will be a tedious task. Switching t...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

PEM - API Method to retrieve Trading Partner Standard User account information

Client has an audit requirement to generate a report of all PEM users (Sponsors, Trading Partner Administrators, and Trading Partner Standard Users). There are REST API methods to get Sponsor and Trading Partner Admin accounts, but not Trading Par...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 3 Delivered

Native support for Azure Blob Storage acess

For supportability it would be great to see native support added for Azure Blob Storage along with the current plan to support S3
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 6 Delivered

Add support for SNI (Server Name Indication)

Add support for SNI (Server Name Indication) within the communication the appropriate communication protocols. It is an extension of the TLS protocol. For information on SI, please see: http://www.networking4all.com/en/ssl+certificates/faq/server+...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 17 Delivered

Control Center Rule Correlation

Two of the things we utilize Control Center for is SLC notification and processes that do not end successfully. We have some transmissions that are monitored on SLCs that are contractual (sla). We do get an alert if the sla transmission has not st...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 4 Delivered