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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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Add comments when resolving an error

Currently when a partner receives an error, the sponsor goes into the activity and clicks "Resolve Error" for each activity. We would like to add a comments section for the "Resolve Error" function. This would allow us to include comments in the r...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Better Search Options for Directory

We would like to request that the search function for the directory includes all fields, i.e. User ID, Given Name and Surname. So when a letter or string is entered into the search bar all User ID's, Given Names, and Surnames which contain the let...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add Search Functionality to Attributes in Company Profile (Directory)

Under Directory>View (CompanyProfile)>Attributes>Edit, we would like to add a search function for attributes. Since there can be up to 100 attribute values for one attribute field, and they are not in any particular order (that we could d...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

REST API support to convert not invited users to registered PEM

We need new REST API marking the status from NotInvited to Registered for PEM users and this only sponsor admin can call. The requirements have been discussed with OM and Dev team (Jagadeesh)
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Disable inventory safety factor on distribution group level

Currently, there is no option to ignore inventory safety factor when set on node level and configured in global inventory visibility. The option to disable safety factors on distribution group level would be beneficial in order to be able to monit...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub currently and is a good to have feature.

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub from Shipment summary screen. With Application Console getting deprecated it appears to be a good to have feature enabled on Order Hub.
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Support for with PostgreSQL

The request is for IBM Sterling B2B integrator and SFG to support PostgreSQL
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

user defined replication criteria of files in a global mailbox

Customer wants to use global mailbox but wants to decide for each partner as to allow replication or not. And this decision for a partner depends on multiple factors like filesize, filename, duration etc. So a partner's global mailbox could allow ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

Revive Health Check Utility for Sterling Integrator

We had been widely using the Health Check Utility to examine the health and performance of the application on a weekly basis. After the utility was removed from recent versions, we are having difficulty validating the application on a routine basi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

enable file transfer using smb protocol

In the current state, we will need to mount the samba file shares on the Sterling B2B Integrator hosted servers to be able to access the servers. It would be good to access the files using smb protocol without the need to mount the file shares.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration