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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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File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

be able to schedule the deployment of a map/ envelope

We are used to receive requests to move map, envelope or code lists to Production on specific date/time. Sometimes we need to contact teams from other geographies for them to finish the work because the time is out of our business hours.It would b...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Support for JMS 2.0

Currently, in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator version 6.2.0, the supported JMS version is 1.1, and it's at its End of Life (surpassed by version 2.0). We are restricted by the Compliance and Security Team from using older versions of products or th...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Config Hub Codelist download in CTE/Production must have filename prefix or suffix - CTE/PROD/Business Alias

When an SME is trying to download codelist from CTE/Production via Config Hub both of them have the same file name which creates to much confusion, Can we have a prefix or suffix as CTE or PROD or at least Business Alias that can indicate from whi...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

The email ID is with a limit of 30 characters, that needs to be modified to allow more than 30 characters

The IBM Sterling deployment using SAML has a limitation at present, where it does not allow users with more than 30 characters in the email ID to login. Whenever the partner users email id or username greater than 30 characters system doesn't allo...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Archived document should always contains both input and output data even though there are multiple processing steps.

I have noticed that, for a flow, IBM is receiving the files from the trading partner with the CII format and converting them to XML format before sending them to the customer, and finally, the customer is receiving XML files from IBM. In this flow...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration

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

There appears to be a design flow within CD/Z when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/Z initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/Z via ALT.COMM path(s).
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 9 Future consideration