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SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen.

Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen. The MBER will show expired mailbags - mailbags that haven't been acknowledged by another VAN within the time window. Van Admin then contacts the other VAN to confirm if they received and processed t...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 6 Future consideration

Out of box utility script to run on Sterling nodes to fetch CD adapters certificates for validation to make sure change is reflected on all cluster nodes to avoid impact to customers traffic

We had a critical incident in our production system (Case TS018513193 Critical issue - All Banks are not able to connect B2Bi Sterling) because of renewed CD certificate was not reflected across all customer nodes of B2Bi.All Banks are not able to...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

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

Display Preprocessor Map Names in Inflight Event Details & allow searches

We have several flows that require executing a series of preprocessor maps before the data reaches the actual translation map. Since we don't track all steps in sequential order in INFLIGHT, we are requesting the engineering team to display the "P...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Chained order link is not always visible on Order Lines table in Order Hub

Chained order link is missing in Sales order line table, for scenario where a Return order is archived (residing in history table) and sales order is active order (residing in transaction table). It shows up fine when the return order also resides...
about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Add ITX ACHIVE(ZIP) Adapter support on ITXA.

We are using ITXA for ITX map processing and there was an expectation that ITXA supports all ITX Adapters. However, that is not the case, as we recently discovered that ITXA does not support ZIP Adapter use in our ITX maps when run on ITXA. Althou...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

Build "Mass Data Compare Tool" that can handle comparing any payload formats in bulk

Customer wants IBM to compare their post translated data between SCBN outputs and outputs from their on-premise systems. They want to pump 3-4 months worth of data via new solution and have all those files compared against similar outputs from the...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Not under consideration

To install Connect:Direct on Kubernetes using OpenShift Restricted SCC

When operating in Connect Direct for Unix operating in Standard User Mode, the SCC allows the following capabilities and SETUID and SETGID requires Privilege Escalation. The customer request the Privilege Escalation to be false. The product should...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration