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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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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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Chained order link is not always visible on Order Lines table in Order Hub

Chained order link is missing in Sales order line table, for scenario where a Return order is archived (residing in history table) and sales order is active order (residing in transaction table). It shows up fine when the return order also resides...
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

To install Connect:Direct on Kubernetes using OpenShift Restricted SCC

When operating in Connect Direct for Unix operating in Standard User Mode, the SCC allows the following capabilities and SETUID and SETGID requires Privilege Escalation. The customer request the Privilege Escalation to be false. The product should...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Most effective KPIs based on business need

As of today, Order HUB’s Workspace allows for the creation of personalised dashboard workspaces and reports, based on the two KPIS of purchase orders and sales orders, that can only be consulted online and targeted up to 30 days before. The object...
12 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Protect usage of the 'decrypt_string.sh|cmd' command

The database password stored in sandbox.cfg can be encrypted, but the facility to decrypt it is readily available within the installation (i.e. "decrypt_string.cmd|sh"). A user with access to the SFG installation directory would therefore not have...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 4 Future consideration

Export of Trading Partner list to a file

We need an export functionality in IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Hub > My company > Trading partners to easily get the complete list of the TP IDs and their corresponding names. The exported file from here is to be used to feed into our ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 6 Future consideration