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Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

Enhancement of processing capacity for deferred documents within a specified time window.

As per the IBM development team, HiSPEed currently supports processing up to 6,000 files, with each file typically ranging between 20 to 30 KB. This limitation can lead to bottlenecks when a higher volume of documents is received within a short ti...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists

Provide AuthorisationLevel and AccountInfo for all upload orders in EBICS HTD response

The EBICS standard specifies that AuthorisationLevel should be provided for all non-administrative upload orders, not just FUL, and should specify AccountId as well as MaxAmount where the user is a signatory for the order type(s). AccountInfo also...
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Adding SSCTL commands for rolling restart and restarting all agent/integration servers

Currently we do not have any commands for Rolling Restart process and agent start/stop processes in SST CLI. Current SSCTL commands are available for Uploading, listing, deploying, upgrading, downloading customizations processes along with CDT rel...
2 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Submitted

Provide a SWITCH or CASE function

Request to provide a long-missing function in ITX for SWITCH or CASE loop, where a set of evaluations would be considered in order with the first success would return a value and exit the loop. Example: = SWITCH ( UPPERCASE ( Value:Record ), "H" :...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Future consideration

Limit MIO Work Queue Data by New Discipline Specific MRP Controllers from SAP

Currently the Work Queue Sets are limited only by Plant, however much of the time spares can be a mix of onshore and offshore locations depending on how close the teams need access to the stock, also due to the set up of maintenance / and the engi...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

SFTP: Emit a Communication Session entry (or equivalent event) for each authentication failure attempt, including attempt number and reason

Product / Component IBM Sterling B2B Integrator / SFG – SFTP Server Adapter Current Behavior For SFTP, authentication may fail up to multiple times within a single SSH session negotiation. These failures do not produce distinct Communication Sessi...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted