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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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Enable IBMID/Federation at individual OMS application level

The enhancement will enable enterprises to configure sterling module (e.g., Contact Center, Store Engagement, Console) access/ login approach independently of the module. This would allow the enterprise to choose, per module, either log in via SSO...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

ITXA

To Support EDI 27x transactions and follow X12 HIPAA Guidelines. My company Prolifics Inc is working with the client who is BlueShield of California (Health Insurance provider). We are working in a project where we have to deal with the EDI 27x (2...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

ConfigHub -- provision to update codelist in ConfigHub portal

Currently, the only available option to modify codelist is to download the corresponding codelist as CSV file, add new codelist entries or modify entries to the CSV file, and then upload the updated CSV file into confighub with a new version. It...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Provision to update code-list in ConfigHub

Currently, the only available option for codelist update from Confighub is to download it as a CSV file, add new codelist entries to the CSV file, and then upload the updated CSV file into ConfigHub with a new version. It would be beneficial to ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

EBICS APIs for Server Configurations

APIs for all EBICS server configurations, like partner, user, offer and contract. New EBICS functionalities, like BTF Services and Custom Order Services, are being delivered with their corresponding API's. However, there are no API's yet for exist...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

External Purge Memory settings are inconsistent between Windows and Linux/Unix and changing the memory settings is complicated

It is very confusing that Xmx for Ext Purge on Windows defaults to 512m no matter what the Noapp is tuned for. However on linux/Unix the -Xmx for External Purge is pulled from whatever the Noapp is set for. This is very inconsistent and can cause ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

ITX - Allow Launcher logging and adapter tracing to report milliseconds

Customers are reporting performance issues so support has the customer enable the launcher compound system logging the logs only report hour:minute:second. With maps running quickly based on cpu speeds today, often enough customers are trying to f...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Not under consideration

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration