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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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Display Preprocessor Map Names in Inflight Event Details & allow searches

We have several flows that require executing a series of preprocessor maps before the data reaches the actual translation map. Since we don't track all steps in sequential order in INFLIGHT, we are requesting the engineering team to display the "P...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
20 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Request to Implement FLAG-Based InFlight Data Filters

InFlight data filters rely on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to display documents to users. This system works well for successful documents. However, if a failure occurs before the metadata (Sender, Receiver, Doctype) is resolved, those...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

This RFE proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication.

Request for Enhancement (RFE): OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This RFE proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. OIDC i...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Submitted

CDW - Reduce windows user permission on Transfer ID/Proxy ID instead of granting local admin

CDW - Reduce windows user permission on Transfer ID/Proxy ID instead of granting local admin Currently must required the ID to be part of the administrators group. If the TransferID/Proxy ID (AD user) can be a normal user, that would be great beca...
6 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Submitted

Mass approval of workflows

Hi team, Please note we are facing issues while approving bulk workflows as the selection and processing at a time are limited to 100 lines only. During mass reviews we are initiating multiple hundreds of WFs against which the approvers (especiall...
6 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Request to Implement FLAG-Based ERN Alerts

ERN configurations rely heavily on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to trigger alerts to the users. This system works well if the sender/receiver/doctype is resolved by the time failure happens. However, if a failure occurs before the met...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Add "SourceReferenceNumber" field in Inflight for document search and reporting purposes

Customer wants IBM to add "SourceReferenceNumber" field in InFlight portal for searching their SAP inbound/outbound documents and also make it available in reports (Inbound/outbound & summary reports). Typically we update "IDOC Number" from tr...

Ability to HOLD data at IBM during customer's maintenance window and RELEASE it after maintenance (SAP ALE Connections)

Couple of protocols like CD allows IBM to HOLD inbound data during customer's maintenance/outage window and release it when their system is back to normal. We don't have similar "HOLD" mechanism with other protocols like SAP ALE adapter. For Proto...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Add Source File and Destination File to the ITXA process event sent to Control Center

The Source File and Destination File is not included in the event from ITXA to Control Center. As seen here. This needs to be included in the event to see the complete picture. This can be reproduced by following the instructions in the blog. http...
20 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted