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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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Remove true or false in extended field and partner group

Hi, in the extended fields there is partner group who is not consistent. When you not choose a field then it's empty, but if you choose and regret it you have to fill in true or false..
9 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication, currently it just supports SQL authtentication, this is causing issues with keeping up to current security standards.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Add support for RSA-OAEP Encryption algorithms to Sterling Integrator & File Gateway

Clients who exchange files with external partners may need RSA-OAEP encryption algorithms. Currently this is supported as a web service but not in the core functionality of the product. Lack of this is preventing more secure transfers when using S...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Not under consideration

AS2SendSyncMDN status should be reset to 'Success' after successful http POST and positive MDN

For AS2SendSyncMDN state is being set to 'Error' when a AS2 message fails to POST to the partner URL in the first attempt. However, in the next retry interval it is being successfully posted to customer and MDN received. AS2SendSyncMDN business pr...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Perimeter Server Monitoring

Please add alerting in Control Center Monitor if Perimeter Server/Servers is/are down when SI comes back up. Currently there are events generated if Perimeter Server goes from enabled to disabled status and connected to disconnected status when SI...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Adding new indexes to database for enhancing performance.

The current DB settings seems to be insufficient for production environment. The performance dramatically enhanced after adding them during DB analysis made by our DBA team. I have raised TS001613070, and IBM Support agreed to add these indexes bu...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 2 Functionality already exists

DTXDS APIs for the Launcher

We are currently trying to automate a bit our software lifecycle management and we would like to automate the compilation and deployment of maps on our Linux system. We are using Azure pipeline for this automatization and we would like to have a w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

I would like the ability to add a calculated field/column to the Items view, similar to what you can do with a pivot table.

With a company as large as ours, different groups are interested in different metrics. It would be nearly impossible to capture and manage all of these centrally as fields in the tool. The specific example I am looking at is someone who wants to m...
almost 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub currently and is a good to have feature.

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub from Shipment summary screen. With Application Console getting deprecated it appears to be a good to have feature enabled on Order Hub.
almost 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Expand the Smart Review code so it works for Dow data

The Smart Review feature does not work for Dow. We believe that this feature would increase the efficiency of work queue recommendation reviews, which are all manual by a Reliability Engineer and Inventory Coordinator.
5 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release