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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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Ability for Approvers to update fields as a part of Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, I would like the capability for the original (1st) Workflow Approver to be able to update data against specific fields. These fields are those that contain information that is required to be provided by the Workflow App...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Ability to present 'Action' options to Approver(s) within Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, when creating some types of Workflow Rules, I would like the ability to add a list of 'options' for the original (1st) Workflow approver to choose from as a part of their approval, that relate to the result of the appro...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Display who the current approver is on a change request instead of only showing the final approver

When you are reviewing the workflow and seeing where change requests are awaiting review/approval, this feature will allow you to easily be able to see who the current approver is who is. This way, when reports are pulled we know where the request...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Enable Online Customer Protocol Creations

In order to maintain flexibility of the platform, while reducing the impact of change live Business Processes called by existing protocols, Sterling should allow the creation of new custom protocols online, and not need a full shutdown to take eff...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

"searchCatalogIndex" api is not returning the results based on the partial term.

In next-gen IBM Sterling Call Center, while creating orders on add item screen, user has to enter atleast one word from the item name/description to get the output. But in most of the cases end users will not know the complete word or word may be ...
6 months ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

System level failure Notifications

Purpose of this request: Files entering IBM B2B SaaS solution should create failure notifications if failed. This is working fine when a file is failing in Inflight – Processing step. However, 2 areas are identified when no failure notification is...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Config Hub Codelist download in CTE/Production must have filename prefix or suffix - CTE/PROD/Business Alias

When an SME is trying to download codelist from CTE/Production via Config Hub both of them have the same file name which creates to much confusion, Can we have a prefix or suffix as CTE or PROD or at least Business Alias that can indicate from whi...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Export of Trading Partner list to a file

We need an export functionality in IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Hub > My company > Trading partners to easily get the complete list of the TP IDs and their corresponding names. The exported file from here is to be used to feed into our ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 4 Future consideration

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration