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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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Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Google Drive Integration Adapter Service

To enable Sterling Integrator with the capabilities to handle Google Drive services using the out of box Sterling Adapter Services. Which enables to track, manage and handle the Google drive integration easier like other protocol specific file tra...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Future consideration

Myfilegateway 2.0 - merge Upload and Download views

Hello IBM team, currently, the "Upload" and "Download" views are splited in two distinct parts. This type of views create confusion from an end user point of view. Our proposal is to merge the "Upload" and "Download" views in order to hav...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

"auto-refresh" browser functionality on myFileGateway 2.0

Recently, we observed that when downloading a file through myFileGateway, the file is still displayed by the browser and we must refresh the page to don't see the file anymore in the folder, The case TS006115503 inform us that SI doesn't have this...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Embed watsonx into IBM Sterling OMS to enable an AI foundation model that looks at all the OMS/Inventory data to provide a streamlined question/response dialog similar to chatbots and/or ChatGPC

The IBM Sterling OMS is a perfect solution to embed the watsonx solution. Building out a foundation model leveraging the OMS and Inventory data set would allow us to show a progressive approach to interact with the solution across various OMS pers...
9 months ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

Reverse Partial Consumed Paypal Auth at the time of expiry

For PayPal orders during Re auth on expiration for partially shipped orders results in PayPal settlement failures where huge no. of orders are getting impacted.In Production, we have a setup of expiring the authorization of orders in 10 days. When...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Ability to see all trading partners associated with a specific map

to help facilitate massive EDI projects when changes are being made in your ERP.
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to see an inactive trading partner listing ie trading partners set up but no longer using.

to help drive electronic ordering initiatives in our organization.
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Future consideration