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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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Native PGP needs to support AEAD(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) cipher

Our multiple finance customers requesting to support for AEAD cipher in PGP in file transfers. We are using Native PGP which is bundled in B2Bi/SFG. Current Native PGP adheres to RFC 4880 which doesn't support AEAD. We need AEAD support in product...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management for Sterling B2B Integrator in Alignment with Zero Trust Architecture

Hi, As organizations continue progressing toward Zero Trust Architecture, the importance of secure and streamlined certificate management becomes increasingly critical. We request for enhancement to B2B Certificate management. Current Challenge:To...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

SIP Compatibility with AWS OpenSearch

The SIP is currently compatible with Elasticsearch 7.17.9 and future fix packs. It leverages the Elasticsearch Java client version 7.17.28, which includes a built-in validation for the response header "X-Elastic-Product: Elasticsearch". This heade...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Config Hub Codelist interface to reflect number of entries in a codelist for each version

Can we have the user interface updated to reflect the number of entries that exist in each version of the codelist, so that whenever a new entry is added, SME is confident about the deployment. Currently, in some instances, we are checking in the ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Assess and modify Sterling OMS to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit IBM and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a...

SFG integration with Mainframe SFTP server Co:Z

Hi Team, We have SFTP server on mainframe using product CO:Z. In order to send files from open system to mainframe we have to set DCB parameters. Along with we want to trigger processes on mainframe. ls /+mode=text ,lrecl=80,recfm=fb,space=cyl.5.5...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Having different Status icon and Status in InFlight for the files that are Finished and not delivered to Partner/Customer.

Currently we see a Green tick mark for the files that get successfully processed irrespective of the fact whether these were delivered to the receiving party via an established connectivity or else FINISHED on SCBN. Many times while working on the...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to adjust periods used in calculating issue size

Since we have a great deal of historical data in the tool, I would like to be able to adjust the time period used in calculating the issue quantity, much as I can control how many usage periods are included in the forecast. For one example we look...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release