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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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Need a list of schedule timing for all active scheduled Business Process

We need a list of reporting consist of exact schedule for all active Business Process Schedule, currently need to look one by one, we have about 3000 Business Process therefore its hard to kept at looking one by one BP schedule for manageability
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

ITXA - Need Utility to Perform Performance Testing

We are needing some type of Performance Testing Utility that users can use to test for Memory issues, Responses when running multiple instances of a job.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Support for Java 11+

Currently IBM Sterling is officially only supported on Java 1.8. There are improvements made on JDK since 1.8 especially around native webservice call. We would like IBM to certify java 11 and above for Sterling OMS.
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Allow optional ODBC connection strings to allow DB connection encryption

My Database team would like to have all connections to the database encrypted, preferably at the application level, using the below: encrypt=true;TrustServerCertificate=false; It is currently not possible to supply this information using the DB Wi...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Option to create Dashboards in GrayLog

At the moment we don't have an option to create dashboards in the GrayLog. Given an option to create dashboards will help to monitor the number of errors or exceptions occurring on different business critical services.
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics

In CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics CDWS endpoint: /cdwebconsole/svc/selectstatistics Example: CD Unix sel stat command there is a millisecond value: EVENT RECORD Record Id => SSTR Process Nam...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 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

ITXA - GET multiple codelist columns at once

In Sterling Integrator, we are currently able to pull multiple columns from a code list entry in one SELECT statement, as below: SELECT SenderCode, TEXT1, TEXT2 INTO VAR_SENDERCODE,VAR_TEXT1,VAR_TEXT2 FROM CODELIST WHERE NAME = "DSV_STD_EXCEED_RP_...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Future consideration

Display of Translation error in the Inflight search Dashboard

Every time we see any translation failure in Inflight, we will have to open the error-ed entry to see why the transaction got failed, and Inflight eventually do not show up the error immediately if there is any failure. It would take time to load ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 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...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release