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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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export user list

We would like to be able to export the list of users at https://www.supply-chain.ibm.com/scbn-tools/user-list/listAll Right now we can only do a screenshot, but we would like a way to export that list on a schedule so we can reconcile with our use...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow individual customization for FTP mailboxes

Requesting control to customize individual mailboxes to flag inbound documents with multiple flags. Examples would be allowing customers to send a document to us via their FTP mailbox and it would flag documents based on customized file name, size...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Escape Special Characters in URL for Get Request

HTTP rest client's such as Postman typically allow for special characters in the Get request, PEM HTTP requests do not.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

XML to EDI outbound data does not inlcude reference to ST envelope within InFlight

Whether source format is FLAT file or XML file, we should always display ST envelope details in inflight (if we can find a match during enveloping service). In a nXML_TO_EDI flow, XML flow uses typing service where a typing map is executed (instea...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Support generic S3-compatible object store for document storage

On the Sterling roadmap is support for backing the B2Bi container document store with cloud object storage. Our company has on-site S3-compatible object storage (via Dell EMC ECS) - please ensure the S3 support includes S3-compatible setups and no...

Compliance check for CONTROL map

In ITX v10.2.1 supply chain we observed that there is no compliance check on CONTROL Messages. As part of WDI to ITX Migration , we would need to have the compliance check when CONTROL messages are received as input to ITX.

Add EDI FA 997 correlation values to inbound document PIDs (similar to how FA 997 correlation is handled for outbound documents)

When an inbound EDI X12 document is received from a partner an outbound 997 is apparently automatically triggered based on the SCBN setup. This outbound 997 FA shares the same SCBN PID as the originating inbound document, but this action does not ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Add support for JN Union HSM devices

This will allow secure use of the platform in China.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Not under consideration

ITX Design Studio Eclipse in sync with Rational Developer for z Systems

We deploy Eclipse tooling to our developers. It would be very benificial if we can include the ITX plugin in our RDz package. The request therefore is to have the ITX Eclipse plugin upgraded to the same Eclipse version as being used for RDz. It sh...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

WTX should not crash when a resource value is too large.

Although the limits in resource values is documented, it is still possible to enter too long a value in a mrn file. This crashes the studio when running a map, even if the faulty resource is not used by the map. The resource registry tool should a...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration