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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...
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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...
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Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Extra Cols in Table on UI Dialog

Table on UI Dialogs can have a max of 10 columns. Sometimes more than 10 columns are required to collect data from sponsors/partners. Please extend the number of max columns a table can have.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Embed watsonx into IBM Sterling OMS to enable an AI foundation model that looks at all the OMS/Inventory data to provide a streamlined question/response dialog similar to chatbots and/or ChatGPC

The IBM Sterling OMS is a perfect solution to embed the watsonx solution. Building out a foundation model leveraging the OMS and Inventory data set would allow us to show a progressive approach to interact with the solution across various OMS pers...
9 months ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

Create an archived/purged report for all BP's purged at a given time

When seeing spikes/drops in DB size it would be helpful to determine what may have caused. DBSTAT does nothing in this regard. It would help if a report could shows all BP's names and number of executions for given point and time.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Needs more information

Reverse Partial Consumed Paypal Auth at the time of expiry

For PayPal orders during Re auth on expiration for partially shipped orders results in PayPal settlement failures where huge no. of orders are getting impacted.In Production, we have a setup of expiring the authorization of orders in 10 days. When...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Develop an adapter that facilitates seamless connectivity between Oracle Cloud and IBM B2BI

Develop an adapter that facilitates seamless connectivity between Oracle Cloud and IBM B2BI , in a manner similar to SAP SNC (Supply Network Collaboration). This adapter aims to enhance data integration, communication, and collaboration between Or...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Needs more information

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