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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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Historic import data retrieval

Users should be able to download 12 months of imported data in zip format.
over 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

PU failure rollback and alert

Upon PU failure the system should revert back to a useable state and notifications sent to users who are subscribed to that alert type (see https://ibm-ai-apps.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/MRO-I-112). Ideally this would also automatically create a support ...
over 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Add SFTP adapter to ITX 9

We are using ITX 9 but need to be able to send files using SFTP rather than plain FTP. We would like to see ITX 9 support the SFTP adapter that is available in 10.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

Need an ability to Stop and Start the SSP Adapters and Engines vis SSPRestAPI.SH and SSPRestAPI.properties

We are building a solution that will allow us to centrally manage all of our estate which includes IBM Sterling Secure Proxy. Currently we can see in the HTTPS webcalls we can see the methods to Start and Stop the adapters it will be good if we ca...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Meet the new names for huge and tiny numbers: The metric system has gotten an update

Numbers may be infinite, but our names for them aren't. That's why the metric system just got an update. Woodward Academy vs Langston Hughes Live Several new prefixes have been introduced to describe incredibly large and incredibly small numbers. ...
over 2 years ago in Call Center 0 Not under consideration

Change BPN Config Center initial page to have only searchbox, not list of customers

Initial page in Config Center attempts to build a list of customers, and this list can be quite lengthy. There is a search box but it cannot be used until the list build is complete. I feel that just a search box that could be immediately used wou...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

A Lasting Legacy of COVID: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths

WASHINGTON — Not long after Randy Watt died of COVID-19, his daughter Danielle sat down at her computer, searching for clues as to why the smart and thoughtful man she knew had refused to get vaccinated. She pulled up Google, typed in a screen nam...
over 2 years ago in Call Center 0 Not under consideration

Allow under receiving at qty level - Currently it shorts the entire container

Store engagement currently allows over receiving once you receive a container. I can over receive any quantity. But there is no provision to under receive. If I do record damage on a container, it records the entire container as damaged. If a case...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow Static Reply-to Email Address

In managing campaigns through PEM, it is best to contact partners through a group email so that if one person is out of office the queries by partners are not delayed. PEM has the ability to hard code the sender to a specific email, but does not h...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Enable Bulk Download of EDI Source Documents

The current process in IBM Sterling Inflight allows users to download individual EDI source documents from the transaction detail view. This works fine for individual file testing and reviews. An option to select multiple transactions and download...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration