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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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Different icon in directory for bulk uploaded partners vs. waiting for approval partners

No difference between the two icons so you can't tell who was bulk uploaded and who needs to be approved.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

System rejected materials due to refresh to the original settings from the initial submission

Materials that are not approved before the MRO IO system refresh, either Delta or monthly, are rejected and returned to the Items list in MRO IO in the base state that they were originally in prior to review by planners or maintenance personnel. T...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Restrict file types that can can be received by the SFTP server adaptor

it would add another layer to security
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

publicly accessible system status page

Availability of a publicly accessible system status pages to provide transparency around service availability and performance for the SCBN products or other IBM products.
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Filtering out inactive items for inventory publish from IV service

Current IV service publishes different events for inventory updates. Throughout the year, there are multiple SKUs that become inactive and are not sold anymore. IBM OMS has an option to maintain active flag for an item, but the IV service doesn't ...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

SPE Codelist enhancement

RFE requirement for SPE Codelist enhancement Problem Statement – We are replacing xref files with ITXA code list so that the WTX map could use code list to perform mapping logic Description –ITX maps in ABC environment currently uses xref file...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add new packages to ITX docker images

Request to install the following packages as part of ITX docker images 1) install gawk.2) install realpath
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

support milliseconds in datetime

A lot of operations track times to the millisecond. This request is to add millisecond support to ITX.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

enhance ITX plugin for IIB

the ITX plugin in IIB works very well. However, it is not possible to update the audit and trace settings on the fly and can only be done by deploying a new map with the updated settings.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 1 Not under consideration

Connection manager changes

Currently the connection manager is single threaded over the entire launcher or on an execution group in message broker. one bad server slows everything down as a result. it would be better to make it single threaded over a particular hostname
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration