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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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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

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

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
4 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 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

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

Ability to set EventThreshold at Node and DeliveryMethod level

Why is it useful? It provides ability to just publish only SHP or PICK Inventory Events (either Node or Dg level). Because in many of the IV implementations, where there is no separate Availability for SHP and PICK. In such cases, currently, the r...
2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Support individual system RSU upgrade in CDPLEX environment

We are trying to achieve a high availability environment for CD with CDPLEX. Supporting RSU upgrade per system instead of per SYSPLEX will allow us to failover seamlessly if there is an issue with RSU upgrade on one particular LPAR.
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 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