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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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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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Customized automated report functionality

Earlier we had an option to create customized reports in BPN. This option was sunset and now we are unable to create any new customized reports. We are receiving the new requests from customers to create customized reports based on document type,...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Planned for future release

The email ID is with a limit of 30 characters, that needs to be modified to allow more than 30 characters

The IBM Sterling deployment using SAML has a limitation at present, where it does not allow users with more than 30 characters in the email ID to login. Whenever the partner users email id or username greater than 30 characters system doesn't allo...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 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...
5 months ago in Call Center 0 Under review

Conditional Runtask/Runjob

We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under 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...
about 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

OAuth support for HTTP Server Adapters

Currently HTTP Server Adapters in Sterling B2B Integrator only support basic authentication. It would be good if we can have OAuth authentication natively in B2Bi as OAuth is currently an industry standard for Authentication and Security and most ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Planned for future release

myfilegateway GUI popup messages

We are using IBM MyFileGateway v1.0 solution for HTTPs file transfer. Our customers are using this portal for upload/download files over HTTPs. Our Internal Business Team raised serious concerns over UI observations/issues which are easily noticea...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Functionality already exists