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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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C:D Unix Web Interface needs some adjustability for user convenience.

The ability to adjust default settings when using the C:D Unix Web Interface is needed. Current defaults when browsing statistics are lowest-common-denominator, i.e. the viewing of records is limited to 10 by default. Most installations are capabl...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Incorrect setting of AS2 MIME header on one of the sub parts in a multi part mime message

Multiple Managed services customers of IBM SCBN rely to IBM for setting up AS2 communication with their trading partners. It was noted, The filename sub part in the AS2 MIME header has an empty value when the filename value is not set in the confi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Not under consideration

The ITX mapper needs to be capable of supporting Sterling B2Bi Envelope/Control Number management is a similar manner to how it support ITXA in order to fully leverage ITX maps within the Sterling B2Bi product

This ask effectively is to expand the Sterling Data Harness called within ITX maps to support more than just delimited from the Sterling Envelope but allow for a get & increment control number(s) as well as all sender/receiver/qualifer/version...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Support transactional JSON in a similar manner to XML within Document Extract Service/X12 Envelope Service (and EDIFACT likely too)

We are a large user of Sterling B2Bi both BPs and Enveloping and historically we also have been for mapping as well. That said we have a lot of demand with the movement in the development space and even a few external facing areas toward JSON, as ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Unhandle Alert

Sometimes mistakes happen. A user may accidentally handle an alert. It would be great if an enhancement was added where as long as the handled alert is still present in the Handled Alerts Monitor, the user could then check that handled alert and s...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

if Json Payload shows in the process data on API call that should be very good visible

Json Payload is not showing in the process data on API call in the current Current SB 6.0.2 .Its ended up no visibility on source data when its processing or no visibility if something goes wrong in the soruce data
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 3 Planned for future release

Latitude Longitude data for India region should be provided by IBM

It will be useful for all Indian retailers who use findInventory API which in tern uses latitude longitude data to calculate distance between 2 zip code locations.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

myFileGateway activity search screen options are meaningless for external partenrs

'Producer', 'Consumer', 'Protocol' and 'Status' does not make much sense to external partenrs. They are too technical or better suitable only for FG admins. For example: 'Protocol' selection. Why this option is given to partner? He always logs t...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Tracing User Activity Across Multiple Sterling Applications

We are frequently receiving some requirements from the business regarding user activity for different applications(for ex: Call Center for Commerce, Sterling Business Center, IBM Store) which they are currently using. For some users we are prov...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

System Certificate Name Update - Global Update to Adapters/CD Nodes

When editing a System Certificate under B2B console > Trading Partner > Digital Certificate > System > (Your System Cert) > "Edit Name or Usage of existing Certificate"... You aren't able to make that name change globally. So your C...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration