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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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MSQL JDBC drivers 10.2.0 and higher support for Sterling B2B Integrator.

Need IBM Sterling B2B Integrator support for MSQL JDBC drivers 10.2.0 and higher. The driver have an additional pair of parameters that designate the retry connection between in the event the database connection is broken or failover. https://lear...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Planned for future release

Enhance speremove-packs.sh script to remove entries from the database

Right now, we have speremove-packs.sh script, which can remove the ITXA packs-related files from the File System, and it does not remove entries from the database. In the existing process if a customer wants to remove ITXA pack entries from the da...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Enhance RESTAPIClient service to retrieve headers

The current RESTAPIClient service is missing functionality to retrieve header information when calling an API. For example. When you do a call to an API (GET) with a custom header element (<X-CSRF-TOKEN>fetch</X-CSRF-TOKEN>) to fetch a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

CDWS: certificate-based authentication to C:D nodes

currently in CDWS Web-GUI user-logon screen it's only possible to login to a C:D node by providing USER-ID + PWD. e.g. https://cdws:9443/cdws-ui/login certificate-based authentication is only available for REST clients according to the documentati...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Enhance "Stock history relocation" feature to transfer usage history between storage locations on multiple stock codes at same time.

Stock history relocation feature is very useful in transferring usage history from old storage location to another new storage location. However, it has be done one material code at a time. Operations/maintenance initiated few projects in the past...
almost 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Adding OR operator at the BPN rule Condition Level

In BPN tool while working with clients like Allied Bakeries where the rule counts increases for a single Trading partner. Allied Bakeries Trading partners like New York Bakery and COMPASS has multiple SAP internal account number like 20043,20044...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release

The same Customer List should be used by both BTI and InFlight

The customer list in Customer Center is used by BTI but InFlight uses a separate list. Maintaining two separate lists is time consuming and error prone.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 2 Planned for future release

Increase PNUM limit to a much higher value (e.g. 1'000'000'000)

PNUM is actually limited to 99999 for most CD implementations. This is very low and has for effect that pnum can rotate very quickly. ICC is for example relying the grouping of CD events on this Process ID (which is a non sense as it's not unique,...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Nodes attributes to be part of node availability calls and also in the node availability event publishing 

With IV V2 api , the ship node now can have many attributes . But these attributes are not sent as part of the availability call for the same node , neither in events. To start with even the basic attributes like Country and Node Type will really ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Please turn on the ability to include formulas in new work queues.

We have thoroughly enjoyed the new functionality of being able to create work queues; however, 9 times out of 10, I need to include a simple formula. It can be very painstaking to work these issues through support tickets, and it would be so much ...
12 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release