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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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Users Need to be able to save their filters

We have multiple users that monitor different servers and the servers they monitor a particular week can change. It would be a great if users could save their filtered servers under a name that is meaningful to them and then they can select it for...
17 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Publishing DG Availability Events for All Demand and Supply Changes

Business Requirement: Some of the external legacy applications are relying on network events to maintain current availability state. Scenario: DG Node-Specific Demand Without Supply The DG (distribution group) consists of multiple nodes. In a spec...
20 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Add ITX ACHIVE(ZIP) Adapter support on ITXA.

We are using ITXA for ITX map processing and there was an expectation that ITXA supports all ITX Adapters. However, that is not the case, as we recently discovered that ITXA does not support ZIP Adapter use in our ITX maps when run on ITXA. Althou...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

accessing specific folder inside a AWS S3 bucket with list action

Currently, Adapater has capability yto list files and folders in bucket, but not in the specific folder. Only get option available, not list. Usually access is restricted to folder, not to bucket.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Include the SA steps as part of run-as-root | C:D installation and upgrade

The customer noticed Connect Direct services are impacted post RHEL 8 upgrade (from previous RHEL versions 7.x) . The SA needs to perform a few steps (outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-sterling-connectdirect-unix-fails-start-red-ha...
23 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Automatic reconfiguration of primary cluster node

It would be so much easier to migrate and not create a new databases just for adding or removing old nodes. Easier for maintenance and scalability as well.

Ability to search for orders by ISBN or UPC

I work for a college campus bookstore, and it's incredibly frustrating to have to manually go into each individual order to see if a specific book or product is in the order. We get hundreds of orders, and sometimes, like this past Friday, we only...
26 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Add native support for connecting to Db2 using TLS 1.3 in IBM ITXA

Our ITXA instances (version 10.x) run on RHEL 8 and connect to Db2 11.5.9 databases. Security policy mandates that all encrypted channels move to TLS 1.3 by Q4 2025. Db2 has offered TLS 1.3 since 11.5.8, enabled with SSL_VERSIONS TLSV12,TLSV13 .Ho...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

Provide AuthorisationLevel and AccountInfo for all upload orders in EBICS HTD response

The EBICS standard specifies that AuthorisationLevel should be provided for all non-administrative upload orders, not just FUL, and should specify AccountId as well as MaxAmount where the user is a signatory for the order type(s). AccountInfo also...
27 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Support the update to routing rules during file activity

B2Bi documentation states that Mailbox Routing Rules or FIle Gateway Routing Channels should not be updated during periods of file activity. The consequences of ignoring this are not specified in any detail in the documentation. https://www.ibm.co...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted