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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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Read-only capability of Sterling File Gateway

We request a read-only option for Sterling File Gateway. The current setup allows us to create partner profiles and routing channels, but we need the ability to grant certain users read-only permissions so they can simply view existing configurati...
16 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 0 Submitted

The credit card industry has always has PCI as an auditing group or tool to ensure the safety and accountability when files containing card holder data is ported from end to end sites.The idea is to introduce comprehensive PCI reporting of actions taken within the connect direct application to update, modify, delete and add new items by an administrator.

The credit card industry PCI audits are becoming more intrusive. These audit groups employed by credit card processing companies are doing deep dives into products that handle credit card data and or sensitive information. In the past, the file tr...
9 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow CSR to Select Alternate UOM for Ordering

Sterling OMS supports placing orders using alternate UOM. For example, ordering a product by the CASE instead of EACH. The conversion quantity from the inventory UOM to the alternate UOM for ordering is setup in the item master. However, currently...
11 days ago in Call Center 0 Submitted

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 ...
3 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Oracle Linux support for Sterling Filegateway

We need the Sterling Filegateway product compatibility matrix updated with the Oracle Linux operating system

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Adding SSCTL commands for rolling restart and restarting all agent/integration servers

Currently we do not have any commands for Rolling Restart process and agent start/stop processes in SST CLI. Current SSCTL commands are available for Uploading, listing, deploying, upgrading, downloading customizations processes along with CDT rel...
29 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

Dynamic Date Range Filter in Scheduled ICC Reports

Description: We request an enhancement to IBM Control Centre(ICC) to allow dynamic date range filtering for scheduled reports—specifically, the ability to configure the Event Date/Time filter to automatically include data from the last X days(>...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Submitted