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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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Please add export functionality to References screen

Be able to export CSV/XLX files out of the references screen
4 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3

Add 'source' information in deleted item file to keep from unintentionally deleting records from different ERP instances.

We had an issue in which items were unintentionally deleted from the tool. This was because: 1) we have multiple SAP boxes loaded into one MIO instance. 2) an item from one of the SAP boxes was deleted in SAP at the client level 3) an item with th...
4 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Planned for future release

"/B2BAPIS/svc/mailboxmessages" API needs to sort numerically

Customer is periodically calling "/B2BAPIs/svc/mailboxmessages” API and checking for new messages. However, the /B2BAPIs/svc/mailboxmessages” sort doesn’t work properly. It always returns documents string sorted by _id no matter by which field the...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect

API and Events to provide Fulfillable Availability (available quantity that are fulfillable) by doing sourcing rule discovery to get distribution group or nodes or node types to generate network availability

Omnichannel Retailers would require to show what is the available quantity that are fulfillable to their customers based on where they are getting it delivered to / collected from (regional sourcing), what are the various product attributes (such ...
11 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

In-Flight Multi-file download button

This will effect all front-line support, mapping and any other support agents using In-flight. Right now, in order to download all files attached to a transmission, the agents have to manually download one by one. If it's possible, adding a downlo...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Enable file exchange access to IBM Sterling Global High Availability Mailbox with Connect:Direct

Connect:Direct has the ability to transfer files using several application files storage platforms such as local files, NFS, S3, and others. This could be extended to support direct access to B2B Integrator mailboxes and, in particular, to Global ...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Not under consideration

Include ForgeRock Directory LDAP service to IBM officially supported list

We're using ForgeRock Directory service in LDAP and enabled HTTP password policy. But got an issue that the warming message will be changing randomly with multiple login attempted. case has been raised to IBM but they noticed that ForgeRock Direct...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 4 Not under consideration

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Extra Cols in Table on UI Dialog

Table on UI Dialogs can have a max of 10 columns. Sometimes more than 10 columns are required to collect data from sponsors/partners. Please extend the number of max columns a table can have.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

List Connection Type in the Server List Menu - i.e. TCP, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3, etc

The Server List currently displays many items. However, it doesn't currently provide the connection type such as TCP, TLS, TLS1.2, etc. One must go to the details of the server in order to see that. I believe having the connection type listed with...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted