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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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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...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Call Center: Combat abuse of agent-facilitated appeasements via AI-backed assessment of new appeasement requests

When engaging a customer support agent, a bad actor might seek to exploit customer care procedures for illicit gain by repeatedly requesting various accommodations - whether the reship of an order or line item, claiming that it's lost, or a refund...
29 days ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Submitted

Handling new zipcodes in OMS

Handling new zipcodes in OMS. Currently OMS does not have any logic to allocate/identify orders from a Zipcode which is not available on the DB. Copuntries update the list of postal codes every year and more zip codes will be added year on year. C...
29 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

WEBHOOK IMPLEMENTATION

RS Components/Electro Components trading partner PostNord (SenderID 0000550273) have informed us of a change they are making to the way they provide parcel tracking data. They have provided the note below, as well as the attached documentation. In...
29 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Submitted

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
5 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

Conditional Runtask/Runjob

We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Needs more information

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Improve SPESample program to be able to debug memory leak issues as well as other performance issues

So there's two issues I know of with using SPE Samples to debug memory leak issues. SPE Samples runs on a single thread so by itself doesn't stress the system enough to cause any load or performance type issue. This can somewhat be solved by spinn...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Needs more information

myfilegateway GUI popup messages

We are using IBM MyFileGateway v1.0 solution for HTTPs file transfer. Our customers are using this portal for upload/download files over HTTPs. Our Internal Business Team raised serious concerns over UI observations/issues which are easily noticea...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Functionality already exists