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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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Maintenance mode in ICC

Maintenance mode in ICC - currently we do have a functionality to put servers in some maintenance mode ,so that it does not create alerts at that point but logs every other detail . At present, we either have to turn down the server or shut down I...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Submitted

PDF adapter command to choose type of PDF generation (including PDF/A3A ISO-19005-3)

With Invoicing electronic format becoming mandatory standardized in the EEC, being able to generate a PDF/A3A format would definitely help all European companies developments.
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Add Certificate Expiration Date to the list of fields logged for a partner certificate CERT= log event

Currently when a partner connects to our Connect:Direct server and negotiates a successful SecurePlus TLS connection, we can see other details of their X.509 certificate CERT= field like Common Name, Locality, State, Country, Serial Number and Fin...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

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

Multiarch DTK support for mac M1 users running OMoC projects

KC currently points towards mac support however this doesn't cover M1/M2 chip architecture with OMoCDTK needs to be enhance to support latest chipset.
about 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Role based access to unprovision of codelist facility

functionality where unprovision button is only available to first/primary sponsor admin.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support Microsoft Entra ID since we are replacing the use of LDAP

We are moving away as an organization from using LDAP and replacing it with Microsoft Entra ID. Please build in support for that as an additional method of user authentication outside of SFG and B2Bi
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Under review

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

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