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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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Support Acknowledgement Reconciliations for NONEDI flows

We are currently supporting acknowledgment reconciliations for OUTBOUND EDI documents only based on inbound "997/CONTRL" documents. Customer wants IBM to support acknowledgement reconciliations for NONEDI interfaces as well. They are sending outbo...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Enable Order Type Filter in dashboard and workspace of OrderHub

In OrderHub to show KPIs there are 2 options : dashboard workspace Both are not having filter for ordertype. There is an attribute present in order model (/Order/@OrderType) which should be enabled to define the filter. All KPIs should be based on...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Build "Mass Data Compare Tool" that can handle comparing any payload formats in bulk

Customer wants IBM to compare their post translated data between SCBN outputs and outputs from their on-premise systems. They want to pump 3-4 months worth of data via new solution and have all those files compared against similar outputs from the...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Ability to HOLD data at IBM during customer's maintenance window and RELEASE it after maintenance (SAP ALE Connections)

Couple of protocols like CD allows IBM to HOLD inbound data during customer's maintenance/outage window and release it when their system is back to normal. We don't have similar "HOLD" mechanism with other protocols like SAP ALE adapter. For Proto...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Ability to trigger Status Message and Email Notification based on Protocol Delivery Event

Customer wants IBM to trigger status message generation and email notification based on protocol delivery eventsAS2 - trigger status message (success & failure) and email alerts based on positive & negative MDN'sOFTP2 - trigger status mess...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Require sequential number/counter that resets every day

Customer requires a new sequential counter that resets every day. They use this counter in the data content as well as in file names. This counter reset should be configurable based on timezone and accessed by maps as well as routing rules
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

FTP/SFTP File and Folder permissions

File and Folder permissions for FTP and SFTP appear to be at the server-level, forcing NTFS security. This isn't necessarily negative, however if we change these permissions, we risk breaking other processes on the server when we only want to allo...
5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Moving cursor between IBM table cells using keyboard arrows

While using IBM buc tables, we want the user the navigate the cursor between table cells (having input field) of different rows using the keyboard arrows.
6 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Multi-Factor Authentication for Sterling Integrator 6.x

Requesting Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Sterling Integrator 6.x Dashboard console log in. Currently, the application allows to create account locally or integrated with AD. Requesting MFA to add another layer of security and authentication.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted