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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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AutoMerge feature for every new release

As mentioned by IBM previously that there would be an automerge feature for every release.Can we get an ETA for this as the process is time consuming
9 months ago in Store Engagement / Other 1 Not under consideration

IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Display the SST Metric Data Correctly

Please refer to TS016456569. When the app system down happened due to max heap usage, the SST metrics display the heap or Default executor threads reached the max by searching a small window (30 minutes) under application server JVM metrics. Howev...
5 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

More than one MQ pool for Sterling B2Bi adaptors

There is a bug in sterling B2Bi websphere mq pool code that means that if you have: multiple qm's (qm A, B, C) connected to the one sterling instance Then one adaptor cannot access one queue manager (e.g. qm A goes down) the whole MQ pool becomes ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow kerberos authentication for Sterling B2B Integrator to connect to it's database

Security policy in our organisation mandates that applications must use integrated / trusted authentication to connect to databases (rather than SQL authentication / username + password). I'm unable to find any IBM documentation regarding this for...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Add System Business Process from SBI to the BP list in Control Center

The idea is to be able to choose from the drop-down list of BPs to monitor, the processes of the Sterling B2B Integrator system so that ICC is the tool used for this purpose and not have different systems that also work differently with the Alerts...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Converting SPE codelist to SI codelist format in POD while exporting

In SPE the codelist loaded in SPE format but if we need to use codelist to test a map with local server we need to convert SPE codelist to SI format,As many customers are migrating to SPE ,for many customers like CEVA,LENOVO, Stanley, Micron ,Schn...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Not under consideration

Adding OR operator at the BPN rule Condition Level

In BPN tool while working with clients like Allied Bakeries where the rule counts increases for a single Trading partner. Allied Bakeries Trading partners like New York Bakery and COMPASS has multiple SAP internal account number like 20043,20044...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day.. We have a partner who usuaully sends arounf 500 transaction per day but there are some case it incrases upto 2000 per day during whihc we will get infra issues wrt cpu heavy utlization ,...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

The same Customer List should be used by both BTI and InFlight

The customer list in Customer Center is used by BTI but InFlight uses a separate list. Maintaining two separate lists is time consuming and error prone.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 2 Planned for future release