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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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Be able show gift card number in the order summary

At this time we need to go to the order line to be able to see the gift card numbers in full. In the new UI we would like a way to be able to add/view a full gift card number in the order summary screen.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Not under consideration

Map report in design server

In Desing studio we have this option to create a map report, Map->generate report. Can we have something like that in desing server version to generate report of the mapping component?
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Copy to Sharepoint UNC path using WebDAV@SSL protocol instead of SMB/CIFS

currently C:D can copy to Sharepoint shares only using SMB/CIFS protocol we need to copy to a Sharepoint share which is accessible using WebDAV@SSL protocol \\our.sharepoint.local@SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\abcxyz\Shared Documents\destination-folder\
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Enable SequenceGenerationKey usage in Router Action step

Currently, SequenceGenerationKey is only enabled to use with Basic transation action. It will be very helpful if we have access to use this with other actions too. ( Example : Enveloping, Router etc )
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

IBM Gentran Server's compatibility with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".

Ability for Gentran to communicate with unicode with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".
about 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to display and edit ERN trading partner contact information

There is no way to easily display and edit ERN trading partner contact information. If an error occurs there is no easy way to find out who gets notified. No action can be taken if errors are sent to an incorrect contact.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

IBM CoC Data Extract Tool - Date Range Attribute required for extracting the data for the particular time period

In CoC Data extract tool, currently there is no date range attribute to configure directly into the tool. We need to manually calculate the days based on current time and required date. Based on that, we need to update the FirstRunExtractInDays an...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

The ITX mapper needs to be capable of supporting Sterling B2Bi Envelope/Control Number management is a similar manner to how it support ITXA in order to fully leverage ITX maps within the Sterling B2Bi product

This ask effectively is to expand the Sterling Data Harness called within ITX maps to support more than just delimited from the Sterling Envelope but allow for a get & increment control number(s) as well as all sender/receiver/qualifer/version...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Incorrect setting of AS2 MIME header on one of the sub parts in a multi part mime message

Multiple Managed services customers of IBM SCBN rely to IBM for setting up AS2 communication with their trading partners. It was noted, The filename sub part in the AS2 MIME header has an empty value when the filename value is not set in the confi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Not under consideration

Latitude Longitude data for India region should be provided by IBM

It will be useful for all Indian retailers who use findInventory API which in tern uses latitude longitude data to calculate distance between 2 zip code locations.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration