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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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Ability to invoke Data Enrichment API calls during the translation mapping flow in SaaS

Process Inbound Purchase order based on the lookup value(N1 02) API call to Customer backend and get inventory details based on the location for further processing the order.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

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

Automate the generation and delivery of a daily EDI activity report for specific trading partner in CSV/Excel format

Details of Ask Generate a daily report listing all inbound and outbound EDI messages on daily basis. Currently Customer is downloading report from InflightSearch Output format: CSV/Excel Customer is looking for all columns name which are available...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Needs more information

Support ITX on Windows 11

With Windows 10 going out of support ITX needs to support the current version of Windows i.e. Windows 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.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Most effective KPIs based on business need

As of today, Order HUB’s Workspace allows for the creation of personalised dashboard workspaces and reports, based on the two KPIS of purchase orders and sales orders, that can only be consulted online and targeted up to 30 days before. The object...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Support for JMS 2.0

Currently, in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator version 6.2.0, the supported JMS version is 1.1, and it's at its End of Life (surpassed by version 2.0). We are restricted by the Compliance and Security Team from using older versions of products or th...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

be able to schedule the deployment of a map/ envelope

We are used to receive requests to move map, envelope or code lists to Production on specific date/time. Sometimes we need to contact teams from other geographies for them to finish the work because the time is out of our business hours.It would b...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Master Data Governance functionality

this feature was advertised for Q1/Q2 2025 but has not been delivered and no information about the delay exists anywhere, is this coming soon?
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1

Automating Work Queue

In certain circumstances there would be an efficiency if a Work Queue could be automated, either completely or under certain conditions (Ex. If a material in the Min Max increase/decrease, if it matches a Business Impact selected, or for certain v...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists