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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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Publishing DG Availability Events for All Demand and Supply Changes

Business Requirement: Some of the external legacy applications are relying on network events to maintain current availability state. Scenario: DG Node-Specific Demand Without Supply The DG (distribution group) consists of multiple nodes. In a spec...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Adding additional objects synchronization between data centers to perform access to Global Mailboxes

Please, consider adding additional objects synchronization between data centers to perform access to Global Mailboxes. The reason is because various objects are needed to allow access to the customers to the mailboxes. For example, and depending...
11 months ago in Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

Increase VALUE column length from 100 characters to 255 in ACT_NON_XFER table.

The reports regarding table ACT_NON_XFER in the Sterling Integrator Database, show incomplete information. The VALUE column is capped at 100 characters, resulting in incomplete visualization of values such as mailboxes. We are suggesting to change...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Future consideration

RE: 64 Character Limitation In Email section on SI User Accounts

Hi Team, We noticed that there is a 64 character length limitation in email section on SI user accounts, please check the attached screenshot for better understanding to what I'm referring to. 64 character length limitation is not sufficient for o...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable Dynamic Carrier and Carrier Service Selection in ScheduleOrder Transaction

We request an enhancement to the IBM Sterling Order Management System (OMS) to allow the ScheduleOrder transaction to dynamically compute and assign the best available Carrier and Carrier Service when these are not explicitly specified on the Orde...
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Under review

Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

SI's bpml should support XPath 3.1

When writing Xpath in bp's, the xpath supported is XPath 1.0, which was published in 1999. XPath is currently up to version 3.1.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 3 Future consideration

Have option to skip retry for selected HTTPS codes on the APIM UI

Have option to skip retry for selected HTTPS codes on the APIM UI
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 2 Under review

Added a feature to support multiple wildcards in file masks for SFTP file retrieval, enabling patterns such as "*filename*.xml" to be used in regular expressions for more flexible file matching

Added a feature to support multiple wildcards in file masks for SFTP file retrieval, enabling patterns such as "*filename*.xml" to be used in regular expressions for more flexible file matching
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Planned for future release

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
almost 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration