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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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Provision to enable creating Resource Pool for Service Items from UI [either SBC or Order HUB]

Today we are able to create Resource Pool for Node Capacity, however we dont have a way other than using OOB Api to create resource pool for Services. It would be a good to have configuration in UI to create resource pool for Provided services and...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Under review

Compatibility between latest IBM MQ, App Connect Enterprise and Transformation Extender

Our customer currently have IBM MQ, App Connect Enterprise and IBM Transformation Extender. They were exploring the possibility to upgrade to MQ v9.4 and discovered that IBM's online Compatibility report has missing compatibility with Transformati...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 0 Under review

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flaw within CD/U when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/U initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/U via ALT.COMM path(s).
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 7 Planned for future release

Monitor and alert on expiring SFG/B2Bi certificates and keys

Control Center already provides monitoring and alerting on certificates used in SSP and C:D. SFG transfers using protocols such as FTPS, AS/2, and EBICS also rely on certificates with SFTP transfers relying on SSH keys to secure them. Where SFG is...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

API support to Create, Update, Delete and Get List of records from YFS_ZIP_CODE_LOCATION table

Currently, there is no API support to Create, Update, Delete and Get records from YFS_ZIP_CODE_LOCATION table. Liverpool project has a use case where Countries or logistic update the list of postal codes every year and more zip codes will be added...
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Use temporary filename during file transfert on Unix and Windows

We use Connect Direct to transfert files between several systems to Open system and use IWA (IBM Workload Automation) with file watcher on target system to start automaticlly scripts when a file arrive. It work fine with small files but sometime w...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Under review

Support Ubuntu OS

Would provide additional options for installation using open-source systems for additional flexibility

Publish an event when inventory is moved between locations using move api

When inventory is moved between locations using API, we are not seeing a MoveCompleted event message being dropped as per the moveCompleted event. It would be good to have all moves between locations generate an event message, so that our event co...
about 1 month ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

NCPDP Repetitive fields issue

Hello IBM, There are a few repetitive fields in NCPDP type tree (We are using v51 HISTORY) that when client sends data but skips the first fields and sends data in subsequent fields, ITX typetree treats it as coming in order thus we are not able t...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Under review