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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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OMS Order schedule trnsaxtion needs lesser interval for next schedule interval than 30 mins that is currently allowed.

Our client has very specific requirement that they donot want order to get scheduled after 30 minutes in case it's first attempt to get schedule is failed. it is because they have same day delivery option for the orders. Sterling oMS stamps next a...
over 7 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

ITX output validation

ITX has option to validation the input file against schema by using the Schema-validation Option on the input card. Same can be disabled by choosing Well-formed. This option is not available for output file that is generated by the map. It would b...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 4 Functionality already exists

Provide scripting option to import, export, and deploy CDT xml files

The ssctl command can be used to upload and deploy customizations jar files. It would be nice to expand the functionality of this command to support the upload, download, import, export, and deployment of CDT xml files. This would enable automatio...
over 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 0

Designing a notification system - The Bell and notification centre window

Having a notification system could be useful in following areas: 1- Incoming request notifications, for example, notifications for workflow review requests which are assigned to a user to take an action on 2- Notification for action taken, for ex...
over 3 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

ADD MQ headers to GIODE JMS connector

Currently JMS connector on GIODE supports only 25 header values. We have a potential customer who sends JMS headers with 40 values which caused issues while coming into GIODE via JMS connector. IBM is not able to read additional header values. Act...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Future consideration

CD Windows: CODEPAGE MBCS change mlang.dll for MultiByteToWideChar Win32 API

After a lot of months discussingg with IBM CD lab and Microsoft developement support (see cases TS011672863 and TS014123302), Microsoft accepts that mlang.dll has a problem with copepage conversion in CDWindows with ISO8859-15 and UTF8. Their reco...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Simple silent upgrade for Connect Direct Web Services

According to IBM Support, for Connect Direct Web Services software, SILENT UPGRADE option requires to provide few additional parameters to silentInstall.properties file (e.g. SSL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD) in comparison to INTERAC...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade : Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.4 to Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.9

Please, we need your support to upgrade (with priority) from the current Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.4 to Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.9 due to vulnerabilities detected in Citibank environments, as we were informed by the partner that the requested versi...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Better integration between manageOrganizationHierarchy and Calendars

The API for managing organizations allows the caller to specify the receiving, shipping and business calendars, but only by specifying the calendar key. The key is typically a system generated value which is unique to the environment and therefore...
over 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration