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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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Ability to HOLD data at IBM during customer's maintenance window and RELEASE it after maintenance (SAP ALE Connections)

Couple of protocols like CD allows IBM to HOLD inbound data during customer's maintenance/outage window and release it when their system is back to normal. We don't have similar "HOLD" mechanism with other protocols like SAP ALE adapter. For Proto...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Support Acknowledgement Reconciliations for NONEDI flows

We are currently supporting acknowledgment reconciliations for OUTBOUND EDI documents only based on inbound "997/CONTRL" documents. Customer wants IBM to support acknowledgement reconciliations for NONEDI interfaces as well. They are sending outbo...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Require sequential number/counter that resets every day

Customer requires a new sequential counter that resets every day. They use this counter in the data content as well as in file names. This counter reset should be configurable based on timezone and accessed by maps as well as routing rules
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

First Message Success Notification from Production Environment

Customer wants IBM to generate "First message success" notification - first successfully processed message via production is generating the success notification (to the pre-configured business users) and then it is turned off automatically
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Dormancy feature is available at application

Dormancy feature is available at application for User Accounts
8 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Azure Event Hub Native Connectivity & Service Principal Authentication

Request that IBM provide native connectivity to Microsoft Event Hub in B2bi with authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would suppo...
22 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

AS4 Connectivity and Configuration Support

Request the IBM update Sterling B2b to support complete AS4 (Applicability Statement 4) functionality for client and server transmissions. Initial request is focused on European standards, but desire is for design to meet global AS4 options. Reque...

Support ICAP Virus scan for Forward Proxy connections

Sterling customers that receive data from partners benefit from ICAP streaming virus scan. However, most customers support both file transfer motions where SFG/B2Bi reach out to partners to move files as well. This reach out (listening producer) s...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Submitted

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Enable Order Type Filter in dashboard and workspace of OrderHub

In OrderHub to show KPIs there are 2 options : dashboard workspace Both are not having filter for ordertype. There is an attribute present in order model (/Order/@OrderType) which should be enabled to define the filter. All KPIs should be based on...
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration