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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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automate updating of DB password in CCM

Passwords are periodically rotated and we want to avoid any issues during the manual update and automate the task. We have the script available in ../utils/runConfigCCSample.sh, but its updating all configuration parameters. We need to alter the s...

Code Lists Should Be Searchable

Code Lists should be searchable. It looks like this was done for PEM code lists (https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PEM-I-114) but the same functionality was not given to B2Bi. Please remedy!
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Create alert if the adapters do not come up after SI server comes back up.

It is critical for us when the SI app server comes up after being down or after patching to know if the required MQ adapters, Http server and Http Client adapters come up as expected. We want to be alerted if the MQ adapters and HTTP Server and HT...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

File transfer to AWS s3 via perimeter server

On the basis of security concerns Sterling filegateway comes with Perimeter server but when we connect to AWS s3 from SFG there is no option to route file via perimeter server. So to over come this we are raising this idea that when we transfer fi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

HA Connectivity for Sterling Integrator to Oracle Database and Support Multiple scan address for RACs Scan

Hi Team, We would like to have a feature in sterling integrator to support HA connectivity when connect to oracle Database and also to support multiple scan address for RACs scan. Currently in sterling application we have configured the jdbc conne...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Add support for PUT messages to AWS SQS and AWS SNS

Today B2B has only support for GET messages from AWS SQS, we also needs support to PUT messages do AWS SQS. In additional will be nice if we have support for PUT messages to AWS SNS, because we use AWS SNS do automate notifications to many AWS SQS.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

Enable IBMID/Federation at individual OMS application level

The enhancement will enable enterprises to configure sterling module (e.g., Contact Center, Store Engagement, Console) access/ login approach independently of the module. This would allow the enterprise to choose, per module, either log in via SSO...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Uploading of Test Files to be Optional for IBMers

While uploading a map to Config Hub it is mandatory to upload a valid Input file even in CTE, along with the Source and Compiled map.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration