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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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CreateNewAS2Relationship API - Request to disable adding additional user permissions to AS2 child mailboxes

There was a fix (IT40683) implemented in B2Bi v6.0.3.7 that was merged up through v6.1.1.3, then v6.1.2.2 impacting AS2 Relationships API “ /CreateNewAS2Relationship ”. In patches before the fix, the execution time for the API was ~5 seconds (untu...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Ability to reset data in non prod environments.

It would be great if IBM could provide the ability to reset the data in Sterling IV or the ability to roll back to an older data snapshot. This will help the clients a lot. Right now, we are asked to use APIs to do it, which is not efficient and...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Planned for future release

Embed watsonx into IBM Sterling OMS to enable an AI foundation model that looks at all the OMS/Inventory data to provide a streamlined question/response dialog similar to chatbots and/or ChatGPC

The IBM Sterling OMS is a perfect solution to embed the watsonx solution. Building out a foundation model leveraging the OMS and Inventory data set would allow us to show a progressive approach to interact with the solution across various OMS pers...
11 months ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics

In CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics CDWS endpoint: /cdwebconsole/svc/selectstatistics Example: CD Unix sel stat command there is a millisecond value: EVENT RECORD Record Id => SSTR Process Nam...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Future consideration

Validate API for Managed SSL Cert and Managed SSH Key

The out-of-box PEM Portal activities have options for Partners to upload SSL or SSH Keys. In case of a user error, a partner may upload an incorrect file. In such a scenario, the API to store SSL Cert or SSH Key to PR fails and there is no way to ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

IV Reservations can be extended

The reservations can be modified to extend them if they are about to expire and we consider they are still valid. Scenarios like a consumer taking longer to complete the checkout or orders taking longer to be converted to demands.
7 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

We would like out of the box adapters for Sharepoint and SMB for file servers to allows file transfers to these endpoints

We move large volumes of files between servers and with some internal applications coming to the end of life they are turning to our MFT to transfer files from servers to sharepoint and file server (SMB). We would like to use built in adapter like...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

ON_REFUND_OR_SETTLEMENT Event raised for Transfer IN and Transfer OUT

Hi team, Currently, ON_REFUND_OR_SETTLEMENT event is raised only when charge type CHARE (+/-) is created in the system. Event is not raised specifically for Transfer In and Transfer Out type transactions. In case of return receipt approval after e...
4 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration