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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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Support service mesh for container deplyments

Enterprise customers are specifying service mesh as a requirement for container deployment under kubernetes especially OpenShift. Requirement is to support and keep current especially for Red Hat Service Mesh based on istio
17 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Installation 0 Under review

Automated Validation for Corrupted Maps During Export/Import and Deployment

Currently, there is no automated check available in IBM Sterling Integrator / ITX to detect if an ITX map gets corrupted during export or import. In many cases, a corrupted map gets deployed into higher environments without any warning, which late...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Enable sourcing and scheduling for Purchase Orders and Transfer Orders

Problem Statement: B2B customers, using OMS implementation lacks the ability to schedule Replenishment Transfer Orders (TOs) or Purchase Orders that support flexible sourcing and cross-docking for a Store. This limits the ability to appropriately ...
about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Under review

provide WmTNStub package to IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration

In webmethods cloud container a solution is available to seamlessly migrate Trading Network solutions developed on-prem to the cloud.it is possible to import all TN assets to B2B cloud and all integration server packages that have a dependency on ...
5 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Under review

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Ability to invoke Data Enrichment API calls during the translation mapping flow in SaaS

Process Inbound Purchase order based on the lookup value(N1 02) API call to Customer backend and get inventory details based on the location for further processing the order.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Image build process without root privileges

User Story: For the current build process buildah is used in the base image and this requires the image to run in privileged mode. In our company we are using kubernetes to run containerd as a runtime to host shared gitlab runner which are used to...
2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

view partner details without having edit access

Our support team often need to view SFG partner details (profile/account/protocol/community membership) to troubleshoot issues, however we want it to be view-only access. We currently cant provide access to view that information without adding a u...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

SPE Transformation Service adding CDATA for Process Data update

CDATA is adding a prefix in process data for ITXA transformation when actual data contains "&" in the input file which is causing the issue. Currently, with SI transformation/translation service, the prefix is not getting added. However, in...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review