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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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Customized automated report functionality

Earlier we had an option to create customized reports in BPN. This option was sunset and now we are unable to create any new customized reports. We are receiving the new requests from customers to create customized reports based on document type,...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Planned for future release

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Enable IBMID/Federation at individual OMS application level

The enhancement will enable enterprises to configure sterling module (e.g., Contact Center, Store Engagement, Console) access/ login approach independently of the module. This would allow the enterprise to choose, per module, either log in via SSO...
about 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

The ability for B2B Integrator to auto accept host keys

At present, we manually accept host keys whenever they are updated by external servers. We would like the B2B integrator to automatically accept these host key changes.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

multiple file uploads using myFileGateway

The myfile gateway file uploads happen one file at a time even though it allows us to select multiple files at the same time.
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Allow SSP application to accept spaces and special characters in the username for LDAP integration

SSP application is not allowing AD username with spaces and special characters like '-'. Since our AD account has spaces and – in the username, this is not allowing us to integrate SSP with LDAP.
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

Limit MIO Work Queue Data by New Discipline Specific MRP Controllers from SAP

Currently the Work Queue Sets are limited only by Plant, however much of the time spares can be a mix of onshore and offshore locations depending on how close the teams need access to the stock, also due to the set up of maintenance / and the engi...
3 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

SFTP: Emit a Communication Session entry (or equivalent event) for each authentication failure attempt, including attempt number and reason

Product / Component IBM Sterling B2B Integrator / SFG – SFTP Server Adapter Current Behavior For SFTP, authentication may fail up to multiple times within a single SSH session negotiation. These failures do not produce distinct Communication Sessi...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Confirm Shipment accounting for PO ordering unit of measure

Idea Summary: Currently, Confirm Shipment is failing when the ASN is sent by the supplier in the PO ordering UOM and the API is not doing the conversion from the item ordering unit of measure to the item inventory unit of measure. The idea is to h...
about 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Easiest way to scan all BPs in B2Bi

Need ability for users to search inside the BPs for a keyword or search string. In B2Bi Dashboard has ability to search for code in XML/BPML directly from dashboard. Example I have defined one custom service in the business process and I want to k...
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 4 Functionality already exists