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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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Enable Log Rollover based on Size and not Number of lines

I enabled Translation Logs setting the Log Level to ON with Rolling Over every 100000 lines. It started creating the logs of size as big as 52 GB which is really huge in size and doesn't make any sense as it can't be read. Please provide the Log R...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Option to search existing AS2 relationship based on AS2 ID under Legacy Inflight

Currently, We don't have an option to search for an existing AS2 relationship based on AS2 sender/receiver ID. We only have an option to search based on PPID or URL contains option. It will be useful if we have an option to search based on AS2 ID's.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add a feature to load codelist to IBM Transformation Extender (ITX) Design studio for local testing

We are using codelists for 90 percent of clients and currently, we do not have an option to load the codelists to the ITX design studio for local testing as we do for the SI mapping server. We are depending on CTE/Production testing to validate ma...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for getCanonicalHostName() method in Java

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for some Windows enviroments.Installer calls getCanonicalHostName() method in Java ,and receive IP address instead of the server hostname for some security or settings.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Does IBM have the capability to attach an 864 or 824 to an original OB doc in IBM when a 864/824 is sent back by a customer to highlight the said errors

Does IBM have the capability to attach an 864 or 824 to an original OB doc in IBM when a 864/824 is sent back by a customer to highlight the said errors? Similar to how a 997 is attached to document in the "Document Detail" section of Inflight. Ba...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 4 Not under consideration

The need to sometimes have audit / trace created in the locations compiled in when using the REST API of ITX version 10

Observed that when Directory name is set as "Custom" and relative path is mentioned - Audit/Trace File is not created in relative path directory with mentioned name when audit and trace settings is set to "ON" and maps are triggered using REST API...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Support for Entry Validation Reordering

The order of entry validation determines how entries are evaluated, however entries cannot be moved up or down the list in the UI. In order to create successfully create entry validation criteria, the ability to either insert entries at any place ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Synching of OMS dynamic attributes with Order Service Search

Hi Team, We have been using OMS get APIs to retrieve order details that are tendered for orchestration purposes. We are now moving to provision Order Service as the single truth of order view and have noticed that some of dynamic attributes are no...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

Code List Metrics - How often used, and when last used

We currently use multiple code lists in our environment. Over the years, these code lists have grown exponentially. Unfortunately, we have no way of easily knowing how often a row within a code list is used, or when the last time that row was used...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

FileTransfer using connect direct with S3 directly

The ability to support CDU/S3 direct access from on-prem nodes is not present in this release. if connect direct unix directly about to do file transfers with S3 would benefit the business. It would be a game changer in file transfers for cloud.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration