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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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Certificate Management Automation

The CA / Browser consortium has voted to reduce the certificate lifetime down to 47 days over the next 2 years. The process to manage certificates in connect:direct is manual. This will become unmanageable to maintain manually.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

Support for latest X12 standard versions (such as version 8050)

Trading partners are now using updated X12 standard versions, such as version 8050. Sterling B2B Integrator users/customers will not be able to do business with trading partners if standards are not in step with community X12 standard versions.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Future consideration

More date and timestamp choices in transaction logs

This is high priority for being able to monitor effectively.There are very few time and date format choices. We are missing important European standards such as: Most importantly a 24 hour time format. Example: 18.30 instead of 06.30 PM Of all ava...
10 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 1 Under review

Enhancement Request: API for Automating FS Virtual Roots Creation for SFTP Server Adapters in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator

Dear IBM Team, I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to request an enhancement for IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. Our team is looking to automate the creation of FS Virtual Roots for use with SFTP server adapters. However, we have been un...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Monthly Summary Report Enhancement: Add Extrainfo1/2/3 to the Monthly summary report

Enhance the Monthly TP Summary to include the Extrainfo1, Extrainfo2, and Extrainfo3 fields. This addition will allow Ceva to: Sort and filter files within the reports based on these fields, facilitating accurate cross-billing for their customers....
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

AS4 Connectivity and Configuration Support

Request the IBM update Sterling B2b to support complete AS4 (Applicability Statement 4) functionality for client and server transmissions. Initial request is focused on European standards, but desire is for design to meet global AS4 options. Reque...

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Allowing command line editing of the CD File Agent configuration

There is a need within the Treasury to be able to script password changes to Connect Direct File Agents. Currently there is no documented way to accomplish this outside of using the GUI.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration