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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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Functions to get internal information from within a running map

For logging/tracing purposes I'd like to be able to get actual information about the mapping/card/function/field I'm currently at. So I can write into a logging about that particular point in the execution. A bit like LASTERRORCODE() or GETRESOURC...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

Show more detail, on progress bar, when using IIM to upgrade B2Bi

Upgrading B2Bi v6.0 to v6.1 took almost two hours. For the majority of that time, IIM's progress bar sat at (about) 60%. It would be helpful to see what it's doing or even update the progress bar more frequently.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Support MQ HA for configuring JMS Topic

The MQ infrastructure at our organisation is set up in a HA topology where we have multiple queue managers. The queue manager name is not provided to applications wanting to connect to the queues with the expectation that they use the default queu...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Compare view in InFlight for troubleshooting data transformation issues

In InFlight we have separate views where we can see the original data and the translated data through the map. It would be helpful to have compare view option in InFlight where we can see the original message and the translated message in a single...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

IfFlight: provide URL and/or AS2 name in details for inbound documents (specifically when no config)

When we received a no config error, we had no idea WHO sent the data. I did assume it was AS2, but could not narrow down where it came from to notify partner the ISA/GS ID was incorrect. A day later, I received the information from support - and w...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Report availability at the Segment level.

Currently the monitorItemAvailability API and all RTAM capabilities report inventory at the node and item level, to some degree including tag information. The RTAM information doesn't have any references to segment. An example usage of segmentatio...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

multiple payment types in single coupon configuration

Application Details Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10Fix Pack: 27 Business user wants to configure a coupon rule which can provide payment type discounts as listed below. If payment type is American Express provide 5% discount If payment type is Maste...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

Microsoft Defender Endpoint on ICC application

Oue security team reached out to us to verify if the new Security migration (enterprise endpoint protection software from Symantec Endpoint Protection to Microsoft Defender Endpoint) impacts ICC application in any way and reference case: TS008480275
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Fix a bug which IBM support is not accepting as a bug

Problem: Any CD Windows v6 client or Requestor is impacted. When a lower case process name job is submitted, via the v6 client or requestor, the process name is automatically converted to uppercase and the job is submitted. While the same process ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Certificate Expiration Warning for File Agent

Our team is currently looking into the use of certificate authentication with File Agent. I don't think that Control Center will have any visibility to when the certificate expires. We need Control Center to be able to report on this.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Not under consideration