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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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Accept EBICS order timestamps with no decimals for seconds

For timestamps provided when sending an order request although the EBICS Specification generally refers to 3 decimal places for seconds being expected, it just points to the W3 datetime specification (https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime) w...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Delivered

Allow a SFG Community to allow using more than one PGP key for decryption.

Allow a SFG community to allow partners to use the existing key or the new key to encrypt their data with so that SFG then can use either PGP key for decryption - this will allow partners to make changes in a gradual way , when we generate new PGP...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered

ExpectedShipmentDay calcualtion for special services to consider the ShipNode calendar.

This implementation would benefit for the customers, who calculate the CustomerPromisedDate based on the processing time of Special Services. As of now, it only considers the Inventory Availability of the item and ExpectedShipmentDate is being cal...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Delivered

IV Reservations can be extended

The reservations can be modified to extend them if they are about to expire and we consider they are still valid. Scenarios like a consumer taking longer to complete the checkout or orders taking longer to be converted to demands.
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Configure additional costs to be considered by SFO for optimizing the node

Apart from the Processing and Shipment Charges, that are being considered as part of the Shipping Model to calculate the cost to serve from the node, SFO should also have a way to add the cross-border customs charges, insurance cost and other misc...
almost 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Delivered

For IBM SFG to be able to leverage on Azure Managed SQL service

It would be super if SFG setup in Azure (IAAS) could leverage on Azure Managed SQL service (PAAS) instead of the need to setup MS SQL Server separately as an IAAS instance. The purpose of moving to cloud is to benefit from the need to administer s...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Add TLS1.3 Support for IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop

TLS1.3 is currently adopted most secure way of secure communication and IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop is still not supporting TLS1.3.
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Delivered

C:D Container support for more than 1 replica

Currently there is a known limitation where IBM Connect:Direct for Unix chart is supported with only 1 replica count It would be very hepful to support more than 1 replica to be able to operate on different pods that may be on different worker nod...
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Delivered

CC 6.1 handling more than 10 alerts at a time

Sometimes we need to handle a lot of alerts at a time, e.g. more than 900. Because this is currently not possible with version 6.1 we can't use it.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

On a reallocation request, Inventory update in IV should be done synchronously, and should not be through messages posted to internal queues in an asynchronous way

On a reallocation request, Inventory update in IV should be done synchronously, and should not be through messages posted to internal queues in an asynchronous way. Below is the use case under consideration. The asynchronous update to IV (as menti...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered