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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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Hold based rescheduling to update ETD/ETS for scheduled order lines

There is a need for an automated rescheduling feature in OM. Especially on B2B, the requested ship date tends to be important and may often change for order line via integration. In these cases the order line should be rescheduled automatically. C...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Display partner communication details under Inflight event for Inbound flows.

Hi Team, Currently for inbound flows in Inflight, We can only see Protocol POD PID for the inbound flows. This request is to show Partner Communication details like Protocol PPID, Remote end point, Directory, Username details. These details will h...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration

get the Rollout ID to check which activity rolled out

Currently in the PEM: Activities > Monitoring page we can't see any reference of which activity is being Rolled out, we just need to reply upon the Rollout Name provided and can't really see way to know which activity with what version is used ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Form Rendering and Dynamic Form Validation

Currently it is observed that in PEM screen there is no Dynamic Validation i.e. If there are multiple fields in one form and we need to show more/less fields depending upon the values user inputs in one of the field on same screen then it is not p...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Future consideration

More Robust Alerting Options

Currently using out-of-the-box functionality, we can send e-mail alerts or use sms messages to our phones based on the criteria we enter in rules/actions. E-mails are well and good, but for system outages, we prefer sms messaging. Unfortunately, o...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

Enhance AS2 logging to include TLS information

Currently, Sterling Integrator logs if the connection is using TLS. However, it is lacking the TLS family such as TLS 1.0, TLS1.2, etc.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 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 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

SMART OPS MONITOR - Strengthen ops side of Product - Product which caters Devops needs

The world is trying to move to devops slowly. Today , If we take OMS side, who ever implements the product to a customer, they sell them by showing the ready to deploy code , development accelerators which helps customer to go to market faster wit...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Support for Java 11+

Currently IBM Sterling is officially only supported on Java 1.8. There are improvements made on JDK since 1.8 especially around native webservice call. We would like IBM to certify java 11 and above for Sterling OMS.
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

BPN Tool - improve Audit Log search to show more relevant results

We use BPN TOOL - Audit Log to identify what routing rules have been added, changed deleted. I found that when I searched for rule name containing "SGM" that had one of the assignments updated recently, it did not show me the updated rule. I had t...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration