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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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Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information
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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available in ru...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Config Hub Codelist download in CTE/Production must have filename prefix or suffix - CTE/PROD/Business Alias

When an SME is trying to download codelist from CTE/Production via Config Hub both of them have the same file name which creates to much confusion, Can we have a prefix or suffix as CTE or PROD or at least Business Alias that can indicate from whi...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Config Hub Codelist interface to reflect number of entries in a codelist for each version

Can we have the user interface updated to reflect the number of entries that exist in each version of the codelist, so that whenever a new entry is added, SME is confident about the deployment. Currently, in some instances, we are checking in the ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Ability to remove a CD Node and ALL references to it in other Netmaps etc with the click of a button.

Removing an unused CD Node can take hours of manual changes to remove all entries in other netmaps etc

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

Ability to pick from a specific zone over other zones using sequencing

Our business would like to always pick from backroom zone over salesfloor zone regardless of inventory level Salesfloor - customers shopping area (700+ locations) Backroom - employee only with additional stock to supply salesfloor (611 locations) ...
about 2 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM External Authentication Server in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM SEAS helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra annotations we need to...

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM SSP in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra annotations we need to make chan...
23 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted