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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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Add Source File and Destination File to the ITXA process event sent to Control Center

The Source File and Destination File is not included in the event from ITXA to Control Center. As seen here. This needs to be included in the event to see the complete picture. This can be reproduced by following the instructions in the blog. http...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Test and certify Connect Direct to use DFS in addition to UNC paths

Connect Direct has not been tested nor certified to use DFS paths instead of UNC paths. The use of DFS paths allows Connect Direct copy configurations to automatically switch to a new device location vs the current use of UNC paths where we would ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Allow workflow approvers to edit the record and send back to the user.

Our workflow approvers often catch slight tweaks that need to be performed to a record that lands in their inbox, often dealing with MRP settings. (For example, maybe the requestor put an item on planned order instead of automatic replenishment.) ...
3 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

OMEnvironment — propertyRef parameter ignored

In Omenvironment propertyRef is not working in customer overrides property section in server properties .When I checked with IBM support they told that currently propertyRef parameter supports only for environment variable in server properties par...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Ability for customers to set up their own network reports

An added functionality in Document Tracking that allows customers to set up Network reports such as the 030 report (error report) 070 Report (Daily Processing Report) 020 Report (Transmission Report). The benefit of allowing customers to set these...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 3 Future consideration

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator External Perimeter Server Version details.

Logging the version details of IBM Sterling B2B External Perimeter Server either files like "PSLogger" or "StartupPS.log" or "remote_perimeter.properties" files of IBM external perimeter server. This would be more helpful during below scenario'...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

MapTrace should be written to memory

Currently, there is no equivalent to the SI Map Translation Report when ITX maps are handled. The MapTrace provides similar information in that it can be used to determine the cause for failure, however it is currently only possible to generated t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 7 Needs more information

Configuring the SEAS to only respond with (UserID & Destination Indicator) in response to SSP and forward the Authentication request (Password/SSH Key) aganist/to Sterling integrator local store?

The process/flow will follow the below steps from (User to SSP to SEAS to SI) Step 1 - User Authentication request comes from SSP layer to SEAS; Step 2 - SEAS validates the user against connected AD and return only "UserID/Username && Dest...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Expand usage of component rules in TypeTree

I have a typeTree that creates JSON. I have defined a field as a Choice field with 4 possibilities : string decimal numeric boolean. The input (from XML) is always a string but I'd like the JSON output to be correct in the sense that i don't want ...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

API support to Create, Update, Delete and Get List of records from YFS_ZIP_CODE_LOCATION table

Currently, there is no API support to Create, Update, Delete and Get records from YFS_ZIP_CODE_LOCATION table. Liverpool project has a use case where Countries or logistic update the list of postal codes every year and more zip codes will be added...
9 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration