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compression at the HTTP layer

It would be good to have option like (something like compress="True") to compress the file at HTTP layer, to achieve this do we have any parameter set any of the HTTP Services/adapter level at HTTP Begin Session service/HTTP Client Method service ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

add -L parameter to RUN()

Looks like the -L parameter is currently only available in Command Server on Non-Windows platforms. When I try to call RUN("submap", "-L") in a map, I only get a generic error message ("Error detected in running map, exiting.") Our migration from ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Not under consideration

Option to search existing AS2 relationship based on AS2 ID under Legacy Inflight

Currently, We don't have an option to search for an existing AS2 relationship based on AS2 sender/receiver ID. We only have an option to search based on PPID or URL contains option. It will be useful if we have an option to search based on AS2 ID's.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

CD Requestor for Connect Direct UNIX

There needs to be a way within a Connect Direct UNIX environment to validate a process script without having to copy it on a Windows system and using CD Requestor there. It would be great if CD Requestor or something similar was to be implemented ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

IBM Sterling Rest Services should support BASIC and STANDARD authstyles at a time in the same instance

LIMITATION: In IBM Sterling Order Management 9.4 and 9.5, Currently If we want to use Rest Services in one deployment we have to choose either of the one authstyles 'BASIC' or 'STANDARD' only. Customer has deployed SMCFS on 2 WAS instances to serv...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

AutoMerge feature for every new release

As mentioned by IBM previously that there would be an automerge feature for every release.Can we get an ETA for this as the process is time consuming
9 months ago in Store Engagement / Other 1 Not under consideration

More than one MQ pool for Sterling B2Bi adaptors

There is a bug in sterling B2Bi websphere mq pool code that means that if you have: multiple qm's (qm A, B, C) connected to the one sterling instance Then one adaptor cannot access one queue manager (e.g. qm A goes down) the whole MQ pool becomes ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Display of Translation error in the Inflight search Dashboard

Every time we see any translation failure in Inflight, we will have to open the error-ed entry to see why the transaction got failed, and Inflight eventually do not show up the error immediately if there is any failure. It would take time to load ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration