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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...
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...

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API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 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

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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users.

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users and help to refer the shipment/order linked to transaction type of the inventory change. Example below In Inventory audit details screen in Order Hub UI the Reference...
5 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

LZ4 compression in Kafka consumer adapter

The Kafka consumer adapter is unable to retrieve messages from Kafka topics that have LZ4 compression. Is there a solution in the Sterling Integrator Kafka settings, or how should we manage this? Without compression, there will be many concerns wi...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 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

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under 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