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Add support for HTTPS Content-Type: multipart/form-data

IBM Support states that the below is unsupported by SI: curl -X POST "https://$address/api/files" \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \ -H "Authorization: 550f9407-146a-4542-bdfb-428acbd558f3" \ -F "file=@...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

myFG2.0 deployment on multiple HTTP Server Adapter

myfilegateway1.0 can be hosted on different http server adapters and that helps to split the traffic and achieve high availability but the same is not possible with mfg2.0, updated version of myfg2.0 should have same flexibility as old version of ...

Unable to Export & Import the configurations from Customization UI page

We have number of configurations managed from Customization UI(such as properties files, custom jar's, custom protocols), we want to have an ability to export all those configurations and import into higher environments. This would help us speed u...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Uploading of Test Files to be Optional for IBMers

While uploading a map to Config Hub it is mandatory to upload a valid Input file even in CTE, along with the Source and Compiled map.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Add a status field on Inflight under Business Field1 to find out only the status of "Finish" documents

Many Support Users from GSK are asking if there is a way find Finish documents from Inflight from search criteria instead of looking into events. This feature will also be useful if there was a planned outage at partner of customer side to hold do...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

SSH key based authentication using LDAP

SSH Key based authentication with LDAP is not supported in B2BI, and also with SEAS integration. Even though SEAS has SSH Key support with LDAP, SEAS integration APIs with B2BI does not have support for sending SSH Key. During a sftp authenticati...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release