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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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retrieve the entitlement_mode for payloads and events records

When using the Trace API - Get Payload or Events - I do not get the information for attribute "entitlement_mode". This could be helpfull to check what entitlement mode is currently applied. This already works for Products, Locations.
8 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 4 Needs more information

ITXA - Import mxl maps from SI into SPE

When importing a map from SI into SPE, only the .txo is successfully imported and not the .mxl. This idea would ensure that both the .txo and .xml are imported, and would avoid the manual step of having to separately upload the .mxl to the map in ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

add -L parameter to RUN()

Looks like the -L parameter is currently only available in Command Server on Non-Windows platforms. When I try to call RUN("submap", "-L") in a map, I only get a generic error message ("Error detected in running map, exiting.") Our migration from ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Not under consideration

CCD should keep track of connection high water mark

One of the ways to license C:D is based on the max number of connections over a given period. However, I'm told that this information is no longer available in CCD. The other option that was mentioned is being able to pull this from C:D directly.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

User disable option in Control Center Monitor

Dear Team, Greetings of the day!! Requesting to add the user disable feature so that when an user who has not logged in since last one month will be disable by the admin for security reasons. We have user update,edit,delete features in version 6.3...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

IBM Sterling Rest Services should support BASIC and STANDARD authstyles at a time in the same instance

LIMITATION: In IBM Sterling Order Management 9.4 and 9.5, Currently If we want to use Rest Services in one deployment we have to choose either of the one authstyles 'BASIC' or 'STANDARD' only. Customer has deployed SMCFS on 2 WAS instances to serv...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Workflow Rules download facility

Currently workflow master approval table maintained in MROIO is not visible to users and cannot download the table, Every time user has to approach to IBM to provide the excel download. It is suggested to provide the master approval table visible ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Functionality already exists

Add native 2 Factor Authentication (2FA/MFA) for external MyFileGateway users

Banking security standards require that external customer access to banking systems require Multi-Factor Authentication. While IBM offer SEAS, and the ability to build customised connectivity to external 2FA providers, this introduces risk whene...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

Snowflake Connector Does Not Support Warehouse Parameter

The WM IO connector does not support the warehouse parameter setting for Snowflake. This was reported as an SI (SI-568223) with the R&D feedback being, "The RnD team has informed that currently the option to add a warehouse in the snowflake co...
4 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted