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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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Support for Java 11+

Currently IBM Sterling is officially only supported on Java 1.8. There are improvements made on JDK since 1.8 especially around native webservice call. We would like IBM to certify java 11 and above for Sterling OMS.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Order Management on Cloud (OMoC) Data Access 

The Development team and Business Operations team relies heavily on ad hoc data analysis and were expecting to be able to query the OMoC data directly using tools such as Toad, SQL Developer, etc. However, IBM does not allow external database conn...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists

Download more than 10,000 lines in InFlight at a time

For billing each month, we are required to pull our own report in InFlight for the amount of documents processed for each month. Currently we are only able to download 10,000 lines at a time into an excel spreadsheet. It is very time consuming to ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Planned for future release

ITXA - Import mxl maps from SI into SPE

When importing a map from SI into SPE, only the .txo is successfully imported and not the .mxl. This idea would ensure that both the .txo and .xml are imported, and would avoid the manual step of having to separately upload the .mxl to the map in ...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic routing of File Transfers

Admins of PCM would benefit from this because it could shorten the file transfer build time. A dynamic dataflow would allow an admin to setup one main transfer that allowed any file dropped into that mailbox to be routed to any outbound partner ba...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Ability to see all trading partners associated with a specific map

to help facilitate massive EDI projects when changes are being made in your ERP.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to see an inactive trading partner listing ie trading partners set up but no longer using.

to help drive electronic ordering initiatives in our organization.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Future consideration

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

Integrating Websphere Service Registry and Repository With Webspher Transformation Extender (WTX)

Integration WTX with WSRR functionality in wtx
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration