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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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Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management for Sterling B2B Integrator in Alignment with Zero Trust Architecture

Hi, As organizations continue progressing toward Zero Trust Architecture, the importance of secure and streamlined certificate management becomes increasingly critical. We request for enhancement to B2B Certificate management. Current Challenge:To...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future 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...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 0 Submitted

Having different Status icon and Status in InFlight for the files that are Finished and not delivered to Partner/Customer.

Currently we see a Green tick mark for the files that get successfully processed irrespective of the fact whether these were delivered to the receiving party via an established connectivity or else FINISHED on SCBN. Many times while working on the...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Restarting a Carbon Copy Branch in InFlight

We work on a lot of Business scenarios for the SCBN Customers where the main document is carbon copied and sent for parallel processing. In this case, we would see a separate entry for the main branch and separate entries for the Carbon Copied bra...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Provide QueueWatch Audit data

As part of our effort to more thoroughly track usage in SBI, we need to be able to audit QueueWatch usage. In IBM case TS013772150, we were informed that this functionality does not exist.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

Standalone Java upgrade

Considering enhanced focus on Java vulnerabilities and the frequency in which they are discovered, its difficult to keep pace with resolving them, if every time Product upgrade is needed. Please see if the Java upgrade can be done stand alone for ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Smaller Stack/Images

Currently, IBM Sterling has a very monolithic deployment, which means that the entire OMS scope is included in the deployment image.Especially in cases of limited use, where a customer does not use all functions, customers have to install signific...
about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Upgrade WLP standalone

WLP releases new versions every month, as per organizational policy of n-2 we always stay non-compliant with any product upgrade. By the time product upgrade is released at-least 1 newer version of WLP would be present. Internal cycle to deploy SI...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted