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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 ICAP Virus scan for Forward Proxy connections

Sterling customers that receive data from partners benefit from ICAP streaming virus scan. However, most customers support both file transfer motions where SFG/B2Bi reach out to partners to move files as well. This reach out (listening producer) s...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Submitted

SAP ALE Adapter - Support Connecting to Load Balanced SAP Environment

IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS platform does not support connecting to load balanced SAP environment using ALE connections today. We need changes to the existing JCo properties to enable this support. This should benefit all IBM Sterling B2B In...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Enable Order Type Filter in dashboard and workspace of OrderHub

In OrderHub to show KPIs there are 2 options : dashboard workspace Both are not having filter for ordertype. There is an attribute present in order model (/Order/@OrderType) which should be enabled to define the filter. All KPIs should be based on...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Export Wizard Command Line should have resource tag option

The export/import wizard command line does not have all the options as the GUI. The command line is used if there is a need to export large amount of objects. Doing large volume export in the GUI can lead to timeouts. In general, the command line ...

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
4 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Support Acknowledgement Reconciliations for NONEDI flows

We are currently supporting acknowledgment reconciliations for OUTBOUND EDI documents only based on inbound "997/CONTRL" documents. Customer wants IBM to support acknowledgement reconciliations for NONEDI interfaces as well. They are sending outbo...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Enable New ProcessingFlags 4/5/6 to support complex implementations

We are currently supporting ProcessingFlags 1/2/3 only in GIODE. These processing flags are preserved and passed to down stream flows (from parent to child processes). They are available in rule conditions as well to decide data routing. We would ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Planned for future release

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Most effective KPIs based on business need

As of today, Order HUB’s Workspace allows for the creation of personalised dashboard workspaces and reports, based on the two KPIS of purchase orders and sales orders, that can only be consulted online and targeted up to 30 days before. The object...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Add "Source Reference Number" field in Inflight for document search and reporting purposes

Customer wants IBM to add "Source Reference Number" field in InFlight portal for searching their SAP outbound documents and also make it available in reports (outbound & summary reports). Typically we update "IDOC Number" from translation map ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release