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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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Allow workflow approvers to edit the record and send back to the user.

Our workflow approvers often catch slight tweaks that need to be performed to a record that lands in their inbox, often dealing with MRP settings. (For example, maybe the requestor put an item on planned order instead of automatic replenishment.) ...
6 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

OMEnvironment — propertyRef parameter ignored

In Omenvironment propertyRef is not working in customer overrides property section in server properties .When I checked with IBM support they told that currently propertyRef parameter supports only for environment variable in server properties par...
6 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Cleanly handle EBICS Requests with no post data or methods other than POST

Customers regularly receive requests to the EBICS URL which have no post data. This causes the EBICS handler BP to throw a NULL document error creating noise in the logs and meaning the BP fails. Sometimes this is just an error but often the EBICS...
28 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Using Generic Inbound GS and ST Envelopes

We have data that comes in with multiple GS ID values for the senders. If one of those GS envelope IDs is not included in ITX-A, the entire payload fails with a missing envelope entry. We need to process all the valid envelopes and not process the...
18 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

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...
20 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 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