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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...
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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...
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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 ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Planned for future release

Enable the ability to copy text from the UI output.

Currently the only option for UI output is copying it as a picture, which has obvious drawbacks when copying and sharing information with business users. We are reduced to sending screenshots. It would be far better to be able to copy and share UI...
8 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

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

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

Build "Mass Data Compare Tool" that can handle comparing any payload formats in bulk

Customer wants IBM to compare their post translated data between SCBN outputs and outputs from their on-premise systems. They want to pump 3-4 months worth of data via new solution and have all those files compared against similar outputs from the...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Option to include Associated Data file in the Enhanced Reporting Notification (ERN) Emails

We are currently sending metadata and translation error report only in ERN emails. Customer wants us to include input data file that caused failures as one of the file attachments in ERN emails. This will help their support team to look at the inp...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0

Support Encrypted ZIP Files

We got a request to extract the files from an encrypted ZIP file and provide them to a shared volume. Today Active Transfer does not support decryption during ZIP extraction. It would also be useful if there is an option to specify an encryption p...
5 days ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Provide alternative to GZip when downloading upgrade job logs through CCD

Many large corporations lock down employee workstations meaning new software cannot be installed and Gzip is not included it makes it very hard to view the upgrade logs without gaining access to the C:D node which somewhat defeats the object of us...
5 days ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

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