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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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IBM License Service for containerized B2b +additional Sterling Data Exchange Products

Chief Architect suggested that I open this with B2B, as B2B owns the helm deployment and container. When integrated, ITX, ITXA and B2BI all run in the same container and that container only reports B2BI VPC to the Licensing service. This makes cli...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Allow partial lines updates by changeOrder or cancelOrder api

The changeOrder and cancelOrder APIs currently perform partial cancellations. If a request contains multiple line items and one or more lines have invalid details (such as incorrect quantity), the API stops processing at the first invalid line, re...
10 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Add support for configuring password history in IBM Sterling Control Center to prevent reuse of previous passwords.

Currently, Sterling Control Center allows setting password length, complexity, and expiration rules, but does not provide an option to enforce password history. This feature is critical for strengthening security by ensuring users cannot reuse rec...

Need to have a way to switch EBICS User Roles

We have a current situation where our client has asked us to switch the roles of two EBICS user accounts—from technical to non-technical and vice versa. I'm asking for a way to configure a current EBICS user without having to delete the user accou...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Submitted

Simplify the JDBC Driver Update Procedure

During a recent database migration, it was necessary to update the JDBC driver used by Sterling Integrator. The procedure to do this is well-documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-update-jdbc-driver-ibm-sterling-b2b-integrator-vers...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Resolve inconsistencies in security implementation across OMS suite components (SIP, OMS, and related services)

SIP SaaS (IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising): mTLS is not supported as per IBM documentation. Webhooks use OAuth2 with client credentials (client ID + secret) for token generation. Typical use case: publishing inventory/availability updates to ex...
21 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Expose Kafka Config Parameters in SIP Container Environment

We request IBM to expose and allow configuration of the following parameters in the SIP container environment. While we understand IBM’s concern regarding potential application performance impact, these parameters do not always behave uniformly ac...
21 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Support for Oracle 23ai

Oracle have renamed Oracle 23c to Oracle 23ai as of May 2024. Customers technology stacks are being updated to use RHEL9 and Oracle 23ai so we need this to be supported. Although there is no general purpose on premise version other than Oracle23ai...

EDIFACT Control Number override parameters are not unique

Hello Team, In our current implementation, we are attempting to override the EDIFACT control numbers present in both the UNB and UNH segments. However, through investigation with the PMR, we discovered that the Override parameters are being reused...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted