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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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Find and review shared data

We use the "interested parties" feature to share products between organization. Once an item (document, product, EPC, facility, event) is shared with another organization, there is nowhere (and no API endpoints) to check what have been shared exac...
2 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center - Not finding specific MSGID's

Need IBM Control Center to monitor the following MSG ID's SVTM026I - Session not establishedSVTM505I - Session Retry exceededSVTM105I - A process may be moved to HO HC Currently IBM Control Center is not getting recording these events and we need ...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Under review

Add a workflow rule that is notification only

We have many stakeholders that would like to be made aware of changes to reorder values; however, they do not necessarily need to be involved in the approval process for these changes. Can we add a workflow rule that is notification only so that t...
24 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Add Solace to list of supported integration adapters in SDF

We are using Solace PubSub+ platform and is hoping to have OOB product support from OMS for integration with Solace. It is a popular growing platform that has been adopted by many customers across the globe and industry
about 2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flow within CD/Z when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/Z initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/Z via ALT.COMM path(s).
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 9 Future consideration

Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Enable the ability to copy text from the UI output.

Currently the only option for UI output is copying it as a picture, which has obvious drawbacks when copying and sharing information with business users. We are reduced to sending screenshots. It would be far better to be able to copy and share UI...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

The email ID is with a limit of 30 characters, that needs to be modified to allow more than 30 characters

The IBM Sterling deployment using SAML has a limitation at present, where it does not allow users with more than 30 characters in the email ID to login. Whenever the partner users email id or username greater than 30 characters system doesn't allo...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Control Center Monitor should alert us when connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server

We want to be alerted by Control Center Monitor if connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server.
25 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

Enable SNI support for SSL Cert Grabber

Currently if you use the SSL Cert Grabber to pull back a certificate from an endpoint that is using SNI to determine which TLS certificate to return, you will not get the correct TLS cert, but the TLS cert for the base domain. This can make it dif...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted