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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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Please add export functionality to References screen

Be able to export CSV/XLX files out of the references screen
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Add 'source' information in deleted item file to keep from unintentionally deleting records from different ERP instances.

We had an issue in which items were unintentionally deleted from the tool. This was because: 1) we have multiple SAP boxes loaded into one MIO instance. 2) an item from one of the SAP boxes was deleted in SAP at the client level 3) an item with th...
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Planned for future release

"/B2BAPIS/svc/mailboxmessages" API needs to sort numerically

Customer is periodically calling "/B2BAPIs/svc/mailboxmessages” API and checking for new messages. However, the /B2BAPIs/svc/mailboxmessages” sort doesn’t work properly. It always returns documents string sorted by _id no matter by which field the...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect

NCPDP Repetitive fields issue

Hello IBM, There are a few repetitive fields in NCPDP type tree (We are using v51 HISTORY) that when client sends data but skips the first fields and sends data in subsequent fields, ITX typetree treats it as coming in order thus we are not able t...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Planned for future release

Automate certificate management

TLS cert life spans are going to become very short by 2029 (https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days). This effectively means that everyone who uses Sterling file transfer products will have to have...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Enable SIP to securely publish/subscribe to Kafka topics using mutual TLS authentication for secure data exchange

We are currently in the process of deploying SIP services on AWS. As part of this initiative, we need to integrate with our existing Kafka infrastructure at Adidas, which enforces mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. To support this, we are exploring...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Confirm Shipment accounting for PO ordering unit of measure

Idea Summary: Currently, Confirm Shipment is failing when the ASN is sent by the supplier in the PO ordering UOM and the API is not doing the conversion from the item ordering unit of measure to the item inventory unit of measure. The idea is to h...
11 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Return Order for component level not allowing in Call Center but it is allowing in Order Hub

Hi Team, We are testing the use where trying to create return for the component level. Steps: 1. We have created Bundle Item with Bundle Fulfillment Mode as Ship Independent(00) along with component items- Shared XML in the document. 2. Order crea...
4 months ago in Call Center 0 Under review

Ability to convert TEXT / HTML data to PDF in GIODE flows

We would like to have Text/HTML-to-PDF convertor (PDF Generator) available to be executed as an XProcessor. In other words, any TEXT -or- HTML payload passed to this XProcessor should be converted into PDF format. This will help customers to recei...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration