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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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Enable FTP, SFTP 1.0, and HTTP client adapters to support all asi nodes

Customer is planning to use horizontal pod autoscaling in B2BI/SFG such that if the CPU usage gets too high on ASI node one, it will automatically scale out another. The issues is not all client adapters support running on "all ASI nodes". They re...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Ability to download and have additional filters in the References tab

I find that the References tab is very useful, but I need to be able to download to Excel so that I can do proper analysis. Additionally, I would appreciate the ability to have additional filters similar to what I have on the Items tab (ex: Distin...
4 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

B2BAC - Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options. As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud na...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options. As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud native te...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create workflow based on the requester.

We have lots of different users of the tools with different roles and levels of authority. I would like to be able to create a workflow rule based on the requestor, so that, if that individual does not have the proper level of authority to make th...
9 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Delete all button under Envelopes->Documents awaiting enveloping screen is only deleting the entries of a single page instead of deleting all entries at a time. Make sure this button deletes all entries after giving a confirmation pop up at a time while clicking on Delete All

The customer wants to delete all the OLD entries in a single shot but the existing Delete all button under Envelopes->Documents awaiting enveloping screen only deletes the entries of a single page.
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Uploading of Test Files to be Optional for IBMers

While uploading a map to Config Hub it is mandatory to upload a valid Input file even in CTE, along with the Source and Compiled map.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration