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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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Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka.

Sterling Out of box integration with Kafka Case number TS002842262 Description WSI is moving to Kafka for all the asyn messaging process from current JMS(Tibco EMS). We are looking at Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka. A...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 15 Planned for future release

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Monitoring SEAS/SSP certificates

For now, Control Center Monitor able to monitor the certificates in CD and ICC certificates. It will be useful if we can monitor the B2Bi SEAS and SSP certificates also.

Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

B2BAC purge for custom B2BI processing events written back to B2BAC MEIGUI Events table

IBM's preferred delivery partner delivered a solution to write certain B2Bi processing events back into the MEIGUI database, EVENTS table so that they can be displayed within the UI of B2BAC. Screen shot attached. There are linked back on the B2BA...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

CDWindows Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Official CDWindows product support for the Microsoft Windows 2025 OS , for future/standard lifecycle management purposes and continued OS supportability.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files to Daimler customer via T system because there is an issue with T-system due to missing header information. This has been showstopper for our VAN migration project and le...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Under review

Data separation Act - Korea ISMS recommendation to separate tables for withdrawn/deleted consumers

According to the Korea regulation, system check was performed by K-ISMS team, and they have identified caveats with storing user related data. As the consumers information is shared across tables like person info, user, order etc., when the user w...
6 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 6 Future consideration

Need for a B2B Integrator MONITORING  REST API

Need for a B2B Integrator REST API to return the following counts: *Number of Active, Halted, Waiting, Interrupted BPs. * Database usage KPIs : used space and free space. * Queue Depth. * Heap usage
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Support Multiple CA certificates in HTTP client adapters

We have partners that are starting to deploy systems in multiple geographic zones in an active/active configuration. Each zone is presenting its own SSL certificate. For smooth processing, it would be ideal if a list of certificates could be provi...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted