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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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Introduce Region definition in SIP and add regional sourcing rules set up similar to Sterling OMS

SIP does not allow managing region definition so that a given post code in the available to promise APIs input can be related to a region and promise calculation can use the region constraint defined as part of promising rules. SIP can easily supp...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future 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).
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 11

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.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

API for Engine Config Push

Provide API to push configuration to engines. Same functionality as the "Push Config" button on the Monitoring->Engine Status (All) page on the UI.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Add Source File and Destination File to the ITXA process event sent to Control Center

The Source File and Destination File is not included in the event from ITXA to Control Center. As seen here. This needs to be included in the event to see the complete picture. This can be reproduced by following the instructions in the blog. http...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Support for DomToDoc to work correctly when used in service output message

You can currently use DomToDoc in the output message of a service Ex. <operation name="Replace Apostrophes"> <participant name="LW_SA_DKR"/> <output message="DocKeywordReplaceInputMessage"> <assign to="literal_mode">true<...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2

Adding additional objects synchronization between data centers to perform access to Global Mailboxes

Please, consider adding additional objects synchronization between data centers to perform access to Global Mailboxes. The reason is because various objects are needed to allow access to the customers to the mailboxes. For example, and depending...
3 months ago in Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

Data Extract Agent to send deleted records

Currently the extract agent does not send any data that was deleted from OMS database. This is causing discrepancies with our internal Data warehouse for any data that gets purged in OMS. The main concern is actually Inventory purge. We have a pro...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Make the 'SourceReferenceNumber' available through the InFlight APIs

The 'SourceReferenceNumber' is a key field used for audit and reconciliation purposes. It is essential that this value be made available through the InFlight APIs.
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 3 Planned for future release