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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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Show more detail, on progress bar, when using IIM to upgrade B2Bi

Upgrading B2Bi v6.0 to v6.1 took almost two hours. For the majority of that time, IIM's progress bar sat at (about) 60%. It would be helpful to see what it's doing or even update the progress bar more frequently.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Display of Translation error in the Inflight search Dashboard

Every time we see any translation failure in Inflight, we will have to open the error-ed entry to see why the transaction got failed, and Inflight eventually do not show up the error immediately if there is any failure. It would take time to load ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced messaging for various message states within job log to allow automation

Today - the only way to verify message processing is to log into Connect:Direct and check the current status. We would like it when messages go into the various states (specifically a wait state) for a message to put but out to the started task jo...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Add support to multiple DB service

Hi Team, Our DBA pattern for oracle databases is to have two separate data bases in two data centers with its own host and service name. The current configCC.sh doesnt support entering two service names during the config. if we do have such capabi...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Compare view in InFlight for troubleshooting data transformation issues

In InFlight we have separate views where we can see the original data and the translated data through the map. It would be helpful to have compare view option in InFlight where we can see the original message and the translated message in a single...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Provide Option to export in Jar file while using export Command Line Utility

In Sterling Integrator, export command line utility, export.sh, is available under <INSTALL_DIR>/tp_import directory. It is currently having export options as XML (Default), WAR file. There are no options to do export in JAR file format.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

multiple payment types in single coupon configuration

Application Details Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10Fix Pack: 27 Business user wants to configure a coupon rule which can provide payment type discounts as listed below. If payment type is American Express provide 5% discount If payment type is Maste...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

Microsoft Defender Endpoint on ICC application

Oue security team reached out to us to verify if the new Security migration (enterprise endpoint protection software from Symantec Endpoint Protection to Microsoft Defender Endpoint) impacts ICC application in any way and reference case: TS008480275
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration