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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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Message received at M & M but Inflight has not received a response that it is processed.

A report which provides more indepth information on the the Invoice details, where the file is processed from IBM side to the client but an acknowledgment is not received from client. For Example, If an autoDx invoice is processed from Trading p...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Red Hat Linux clustering/HA support

A number of clients ask about about HA solutions and clustering support for Connect:Direct with Red Hat Linux. I've had a search around, but only found the usual (old) docs on HA support with AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows. I was trying to find somethi...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

gmsa account

Azure provide GMSA account for their customers . As per IBM (Case TS011227338) IBM is not supporing GMSA account for installation .
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

User Access management Enhancement - Archiving users

Some clients have hundreds of user accounts that are "inactive" accounts due to user turnover for instances that are a decade old. The accounts need to be retained so the user action/notes retain integrity, however it would be useful to have an "a...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Global partner name list with EDI Code

In inflight customer can track business documents but they need to give partner name or customer names for each ID and if they wont provide nothing gets populated in name section. As per my experience its repetitive work if we are having same EDI ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Duplicate and generic envelope identification while importing envelope

Currently if the envelope name is different than which is present already in config center. The import process create new envelope considering no existing envelope but in place of that process should verify existing envelope using sender, receiver...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

More uses of resource vars

We have different engineers who all have a different way of storing general used parts of mappings (i.e. TypeTrees). The possibility to use a resource var in the filename parts of input and output cards would help us drastically to maintain a cent...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 Not under consideration

Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 3 Not under consideration

Identify Procurement assignments in YFSConfirmAssignmentsUE

YFSConfirmAssignmentsUE is implemented to validate the assignments with the external system (primarily inventory check with inventory source system). Is there any way to identify a line that is being procured from a vendor based on the fields in t...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

Stand Alone File Agent - Do Path Match

Reference TS011100108. It is my understanding that enhancements have been done with Integrated File Agent, but the same enhancements have not been made to stand alone File Agent. One such enhancement, is to do path matching. With stand alone File ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration