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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...
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...

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User Credential Management & Auditability in IV

Current Limitation: IV currently uses a single shared credential for all users. This results in: No traceability of who made specific changes. Lack of role-based access control, as all users have the same level of access (typically edit). Pr...
about 2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Add SASL/JAAS support to Kafka EDI Visibility

Enabling SASL/JAAS support for Kafka EDI Visibility is critical for integrating with secure enterprise environments that enforce authentication and encryption standards. Many organizations use SASL/JAAS to comply with internal security policies an...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Auto-convert User Input to Uppercase

On the call-center homepage, there is a quick search text field that allows users to search for customers by entering their details. According to the official documentation, customization of the homepage is not supported. However, we would like to...
7 months ago in Call Center 0 Submitted

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Support different version of OS in cluster

As customer is planning to increase the number of nodes (e.g 50) in Sterling B2B Integrator, different OS will be adopted in near future. They request that Sterling B2B Integrator should support different version of OS in cluster.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

More predefined time periods to choose from

In the dropdown with predefined time periods in the transaction logs it would be very helpful to have more choises.These are the choises we would find the most useful: 1 hour 4 hours This day (From 12:00AM – 11.59PM, note! Not till ‘now’, the enti...
7 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Set up an alert to trigger when a flow experiences over X failed processes.

Implementing an alert for flows that fail more than three times will allow us to proactively identify and address critical system issues before they impact users or downstream processes, significantly improving our service reliability.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Specific Version Map Deployment in Config Hub

Ceva is seeking an improvement on the config hub or a method to select specific versions for deployment. Example:Map Name: CEVA_WMS_SEPHORA_I_INSDES_XML_XML The map provided in CTE is version 2.2, while the Production environment operates on versi...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS. In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost. There is the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release