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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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Set the jco.client.snc_sso=0 when SNC is enabled and password based authendication is used.

Solargard one of the customer of IBM in B2B, wants to connect to IBM through SAP Adapter connection.During connection we could not send the file to Solargard and whatever files Solargard sent was not received at IBM.So after analyzing the logs it ...
14 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Submitted

Expose Kafka Config Parameters in SIP Container Environment

We request IBM to expose and allow configuration of the following parameters in the SIP container environment. While we understand IBM’s concern regarding potential application performance impact, these parameters do not always behave uniformly ac...
27 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

ITXA should require user passwords be changed at least yearly. Preferably every 90 days.

End user passwords are not forced to be reset. According to best practice security standards they shoudl be changed every 90 days or yearly. ITXA has no forced password change functionality. There shoudl be foreced password change based on time. F...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Allow partial lines updates by changeOrder or cancelOrder api

The changeOrder and cancelOrder APIs currently perform partial cancellations. If a request contains multiple line items and one or more lines have invalid details (such as incorrect quantity), the API stops processing at the first invalid line, re...
16 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Add support for configuring password history in IBM Sterling Control Center to prevent reuse of previous passwords.

Currently, Sterling Control Center allows setting password length, complexity, and expiration rules, but does not provide an option to enforce password history. This feature is critical for strengthening security by ensuring users cannot reuse rec...

Private Key Authentication for JDBC Connections

Our current Sterling 6.1.2 is connecting to Snowflake DB using JDBC (Snowflake driver) with username/password authentication method. Now, due to security reasons, the Snowflake is enforcing private key authentication (.p8) instead of password. But...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

AS2 support for CEM message format

As Sectigo and other Certificate Authority (CA) providers increasingly implement frequent certificate upgrades to strengthen security, the need for automated certificate management solutions becomes more critical. A proven approach, already adopte...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Submitted

VDA standards missing in IBM ITX

After checking with IBM ITX Support, we confirmed that there is no out-of-the-box type tree available for the VDA Standard. We request that a VDA (German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie)) type tree be include...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Submitted

Run REORG only when needed

Reduce the time it takes for db-verify to run. Currently it seems that db-verify runs the REORG command more than needed. Our DBA recommends instead to run it only when the result of this query is true: SELECT ( (NUM_REORG_REC_ALTERS > 0) or ('...
21 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Get the list of SKU's against node which are fulfillment allowed disabled using IV API

Business use case We would like to have solution or IV API to get the list of SKU's which are fulfillment allowed disabled against the nodes. Even with Inventory audit api we are not able to identify why and when sku against node fulfillment allow...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted