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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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Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Submitted

Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Needs more information

Problem Statement: ATP Calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request ship date

Here is the detailed scenario. Problem Statement:ATP calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request Ship date. ​ IV- ATP Calculation – Additional Scenarios​ Current Date: 25 July 2025 (Day 1) & Consider Future...
about 1 month ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Automated Validation for Corrupted Maps During Export/Import and Deployment

Currently, there is no automated check available in IBM Sterling Integrator / ITX to detect if an ITX map gets corrupted during export or import. In many cases, a corrupted map gets deployed into higher environments without any warning, which late...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Add Support for TSS Protected IDs in BATCH

CDZ supports RACF and ACF2 when it comes to PROTECTED IDs, but does not support TSS. Please extend this support to TSS, as TSS implemented PROTECTED in a similar manner to RACF.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Planned for future release

Sterling Secure Proxy to sign Login SAML request

Presently IBM Sterling Secure proxy sends a SAML request to external Idp using SSO Configuration in SSP. The Login SAML request is not adding the signature but the logout request is adding the signature in SAML request from SSP. From our security ...
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

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...
13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Issue with chinese characters or Ukranian characters in Sterling Map Editor

Hi Team, We’ve observed that the Sterling B2Bi Map Editor Interface currently does not support the input of Chinese or Ukrainian characters. Could you please investigate whether this limitation is related to UTF-8 multi-byte character handling or ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Under review