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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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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

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

Update GPM to work with Windows11

The GPM (Graphical Process Modeler) is not working with my new laptop that has Windows11 operating system.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Compliance for SWIFT members with MFA for internal users

In relation to the SWIFT Customer Security Programme, the Customer Security Controls Framework V2023, there is a mandatory requirement for relevant in scope components to implement and maintain Multi-Factor Authentication when internal operators’ ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Future consideration

Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

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

B2Bi application should automatically sync with the system time during DST change, without application re-start

Currently, we are re-cycling the B2B SI application in-order to sync the application time with system time during Daylight Savings (DST). Customer is not happy to bounce the application for time change during DST, re-cyling the application is impa...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

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

Change the process to do 'Reset to Default' in Order Hub to view the newly added OOB search filter in the UI.

There is a need to do 'Reset to Default' in Order Hub post every deployment when a OOB search filter is added on search screen. Else it is not visible. Idea is to remove the need to do that. Typically from user perspective they find it very hard t...
11 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration