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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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Provide a secure location for SaaS customers to store API secret IDs and keys so that they can more securely manage the application

As a part of any OMS implementation, integration with 3rd party external system is common. It will be great if IBM OMoC provided a secure vault solution to store API secret id and keys. For On Prem, customers could encrypt the secret id and keys. ...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement for S3 Put service in Sterling Integrator tool

we need to invoke the AWS S3 Put BP from a parent BP. The AWS S3 Put BP always asks for a path of the source file and it doesn't take the file from parent BP like other BPs/Services Hence, we need an enhancement to achieve this without giving a...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Decompress .zip files

We have a requirement where the partner application will send compressed(.zip) files. One zip file will contain multiple documents in it. The zip file should be decompressed and the individual files should be sent to the downstream application. An...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

OOTB Antivirus scan using ICAP

When using ICAP integration on SSP there are a lot of files with the .unscanned renaming due to the volume of the files or any other of the highly possible scenarios in which the file is sent to the backend without being scanned. Due to the type o...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Employ "Set Full Reship Quantity" When Doing Reships in Next Gen Call Center

When performing returns in Next Gen Call Center, you have the ability to "Set Full Return Quantity" on the screen. We would like to see the same thing available when utilizing the Reship functionality. Please see attachment
7 months ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

WatsonX.ai Assistant helping the store associate - Intelligent Store Associate

The goal here is to be able to ramp up store associates to help with peak seasons, getting them selling quicker and reducing training time. In addition, when new sales take place, Watson can assist the store associate letting them know, keeping th...
7 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Virtual root search with MAILBOX

SI admin UI provides search of Virtual root if you know the user id. There are instances where we dont know the user id tied to a virtual root but we know the mailbox path. It would tremendously help if there is a search option with a mailbox path...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

SFG with PGP setup page with always trust option

My customer(KBANK Thailand) would like to use SFG with PGP and do not want to accept always trust when the customer would like to onboard the new their clients. My customer do not want to accept always trust by manual way. So need IBM File Gateway...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

E-Invoice: Storing Failed Delivery documents when Archiving the invoice in Inflight

There is a legal requirement to also keep failed delivery documents from failed invoices in Italy. Right now when a failed invoice reaches 30 days old then it gets archived. When archived all events + attachments in the events get removed so there...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration