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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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IBM CoC Data Extract Agent - To be able to pull data within specific time range. Need ability to provide startts and endts for the agent to run to extract older records.

Currently CoC Data extract agent doesn't have the ability to pull records within a specific date range. We understand that the data extract tool is currently designed to extract data on an ongoing basis. In case we decide older data (past one mont...
11 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Add Business Alias field in inflight for a process(Process ID)

Existing Document search in BPN has a required field "Business Alias". So along with DateTime Range ; one has to put BA to track any document flowing into the system. One has to search business alias from existing customers business alias. Also if...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Change MQ adapter password max from 20 to 42+ characters.

MQ adapter in B2BI/SFG is limited to a 20 character password. IBM MQ SaaS offering in IBM Cloud requires a 42 character password minimum. Can the allowed password length be increased so B2BI/SFG MQ adapter will work on IBM Cloud MQ Service?
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

HTTP Adapter Connection Properties: SSL Settings - multiple system certificates needed

When the certificate used for our AS2 and HTTP connections with trading partners expires, we must switch to a new certificate. Each of our trading partners must be given the new certificate. The System certificate option on the HTTP Adapter Connec...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Not under consideration

Perform checkouts before actual upgrade

Please consider to move or duplicate some of the checks before actual upgrade action. For example - cfgcheck can be initiated before upgrade action, this will eliminate situation where e.g. error in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg causes rollback action a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Eliminate the compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace monitoring.

The compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace prevents use of Control Center Webconsole. Only remediation is to disable the Dynatrace UI agent on the application node. We use Dynatrace for monitoring of all our Sterling Infrastructure and woul...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 3 Not under consideration

SSO Authentication

Need OMS to integrate directly with customer's ID provider so they don't have to use IBM ID.