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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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Get the list of SKU's against node which are fulfillment allowed disabled using IV API

Business use case We would like to have solution or IV API to get the list of SKU's which are fulfillment allowed disabled against the nodes. Even with Inventory audit api we are not able to identify why and when sku against node fulfillment allow...
23 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 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...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Private Key Authentication for JDBC Connections

Our current Sterling 6.1.2 is connecting to Snowflake DB using JDBC (Snowflake driver) with username/password authentication method. Now, due to security reasons, the Snowflake is enforcing private key authentication (.p8) instead of password. But...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

When the customers are sending files to CNET through GISHI the Receiver mailslot information should be available from Inflight.

Below are the existing situations: Currently the customer see only MQ Message ID and MQ Correlation ID from the Inflight. However, no mailslot information is available there. Current Challenges: From the Inflight, the customer doesn’t have the vis...

Image build process without root privileges

For the current build process buildah is used in the base image and this requires the image to run in privileged mode. In our company we are using kubernetes to run containerd as a runtime to host shared gitlab runner which are used to automate bu...
14 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Improve SPOE update process in containers so that a helm install is not required

Currently, when making an update to the SPOE file, the process requires the file to be pulled in via a helm install. In an enterprise environment, there tend to be limitations on what can be done during business hours as part of normal configurati...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

Add Support for TSS Protected IDs in BATCH

CDZ supports RACF and ACF2 when it comes to PROTECTED IDs, but does not support TSS. Please extend this support to TSS, as TSS implemented PROTECTED in a similar manner to RACF.
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Problem Statement: ATP Calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request ship date

Here is the detailed scenario. Problem Statement:ATP calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request Ship date. ​ IV- ATP Calculation – Additional Scenarios​ Current Date: 25 July 2025 (Day 1) & Consider Future...
about 1 month ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Order Hub - Enter key should be enabled while searching the records

It will significantly save user time. Without "Enter key", it adds unnecessary clicks and significantly slows down high-volume search workflows PMR # TS020339798
9 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Add official support for ssh ECDSA encryption key

ECDSA keys were functional and the only EC keys available in Sterling prior version 6.2. We have already several partners and servers workings with those keys. We can't properly import new ECDSA keys in Sterling since version 6.2+. Can you add pro...
9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted