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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...
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...

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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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Object Store Client Adapters to connect through Perimeter servers

The generic Object Store Client adapter, that supports connectivity to Azure Blob (and in future may support S3, GCP etc), is only allowing connections through the ASI nodes and NOT the Perimeter Servers unlike any other communication adapters (SF...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

specifying also issuing CA name of client authentication certificates in remote nodes

when I define a certificate common name for client authentication in a Remote Node, there's no possibility to add the name of issuing certificate authority. this means that authentication will be successful for 2 or more different certificates wit...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Move $CL codelists from Legacy InFlight UI to Config Center UI under the company's Business Alias

When using $CL (codelist lookups via the Rules Engine), those codelists must be loaded to and maintained on Legacy InFlight UI. These codelists are difficult to update and maintain, cannot be exported, and also are not visible to clients using Con...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release

Enhance QueueWatcher to support SASL_SSL including JAAS config with credentials

We have been waiting for several years for the ability to capture and store QueueWatcher data. However, in version 6.2, we are unable to access QueueWatcher metrics due to a limitation in SASL_SSL support. I have already raised a case with IBM Sup...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 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. Communic...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists

Resolve inconsistencies in security implementation across OMS suite components (SIP, OMS, and related services)

SIP SaaS (IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising): mTLS is not supported as per IBM documentation. Webhooks use OAuth2 with client credentials (client ID + secret) for token generation. Typical use case: publishing inventory/availability updates to ex...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Expose Kafka Config Parameters in SIP Container Environment

We request IBM to expose and allow configuration of the following parameters in the SIP container environment. While we understand IBM’s concern regarding potential application performance impact, these parameters do not always behave uniformly ac...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Ability to trigger alerts when a certain type of EDI X12 document not received or sent within certain time frame

It would be useful as we can do all the monitoring in Control Center rather than having scripts that we currently use.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted