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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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Order hub permission to incldue options to controll node turn on/off and change capacity actions based on node type

The client wants to have the abiity to enable and disable stores for certain users but the same set of user should not have the ability to see turn off DCs. Similarly there should be ability to change the node capacity for certain users only for s...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Order Hub to have ability to periodically updated nodes in workspace based on a node selection rule

The client wants to have ability to create workspace that accepts a rule like all nodes with parent organization A and Parent Organization B and have the system periodically update the node list as nodes are added and removed.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add an API to add/remove/change Users in the access control list

Clients would like the ability to manage a user Group with their own tools (for audit purposes). If they could use an API to modify the MROIO user list, then they could manage the list on their side.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Mail Client adapter to allow Oauth 2.0 with grant_type as Client Credentials

The out of the box B2B mail client adapter allows to make connections to the mail exchange server for OAuth2.0 with grant_type as "Password" only. The grant_type as password is an obsolete and a vulnerable way of getting tokens and should allow gr...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Support long connection for large volumes of small files

Our competitor, Tongtech, provide a file transfer tool based on MQ to transfer files and support long connection which means if doesn't need to initiate a new session for each repective files which really lead to a high performance for large volum...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

ITXA is allowing duplicate envelopes

ITXA allows users to create duplicate envelopes which causes enveloping and deenveloping process failures . Better to enhance ITXA product not to allow duplicate envelopes
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

JSON Outputs are Getting Generated with Indentation Turned OFF

JSON Outputs are Getting Generated with Indentation Turned OFF In ITX Map : When we Import JSON File as a Type Tree, Output Layout by default is getting generated with Indentation Turned off. Currently below are Missing in ITX Type Tree. When we...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SEAS

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSPcm, Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Maintain Rule versions/version manager for routing rules created under BPN support Tool

Many process flows is designed using BPN support tool. Currently if a rule is modified/updated, The only way is to search the rule update by audit logs and manually revert back the values incase there is a processing issue. Many rules are being up...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration