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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...
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...

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Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Enable the ability to copy text from the UI output.

Currently the only option for UI output is copying it as a picture, which has obvious drawbacks when copying and sharing information with business users. We are reduced to sending screenshots. It would be far better to be able to copy and share UI...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Ability to retrieve original payload from B2B logs

The content downloaded from transaction log is modified. We would like to be able to download the actual data that was received.
2 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

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!
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
12 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication, currently it just supports SQL authtentication, this is causing issues with keeping up to current security standards.
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

EnterpriseCode to be added as a Criteria Parameter for the Send Invoice Transaction

Currently, the out-of-the-box SendInvoice agent transaction does not support using EnterpriseCode as a criteria parameter. As a result, when the agent runs, it retrieves all invoices, regardless of the EnterpriseCode. The default query used by ...
2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

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...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Password policy enforcement - minimum change password timeframe

To deny automated user's password change, add an additional parameter in password policy indicating the minimum number of days between a password is changed and the next time it can be changed.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration