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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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AS2 Partner profile userid and password length

Currently B2Bi only supports 56 character long password in trading partner AS2 profile for basic authentication. However, some of the customers using SAP BTP providing 80 character userID and password for AS2 configuration and B2Bi is not able to ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Submitted

S3 support for Linux on Power.

I would like to kindly request that S3 support be extended to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct versions running on Power systems. Many of our clients use Power platforms and are in need of this feature to meet their integration requirements.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Enhancement Request - Partner Community Name update in Sterling File Gateway

Problem Statement: Currently, when a partner's community name needs to be updated in Sterling File Gateway, there is no direct "edit" functionality available for existing partners. The only apparent method to change a partner's community is to del...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Submitted

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Allow Remote Profiles to have two passwords attached (Primary and Backup)

Attempt passwords in order when establishing the remote connection When a password is updated, automatically move the current value to the backup password and set the new value to the primary password. For key-based authentication, allow primary a...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Standalone Java upgrade

Considering enhanced focus on Java vulnerabilities and the frequency in which they are discovered, its difficult to keep pace with resolving them, if every time Product upgrade is needed. Please see if the Java upgrade can be done stand alone for ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Smaller Stack/Images

Currently, IBM Sterling has a very monolithic deployment, which means that the entire OMS scope is included in the deployment image.Especially in cases of limited use, where a customer does not use all functions, customers have to install signific...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Upgrade WLP standalone

WLP releases new versions every month, as per organizational policy of n-2 we always stay non-compliant with any product upgrade. By the time product upgrade is released at-least 1 newer version of WLP would be present. Internal cycle to deploy SI...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists