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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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New parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID in CD_SRVR.INI

Currently silent installation for Windows allows to provide CD_ADMIN_USERID in CD_SRVR.INI. The enhancement is to add new parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID that would allow to provide Group Name as CD Administrator Group.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Publishing DG Availability Events for All Demand and Supply Changes

Business Requirement: Some of the external legacy applications are relying on network events to maintain current availability state. Scenario: DG Node-Specific Demand Without Supply The DG (distribution group) consists of multiple nodes. In a spec...
6 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Internal system required certificates prevention

We received the alert for expired certificate in email. We mistakenly removed the expired document encryption cert doccrypto2. After we worked with the support and we found out this cert is required and even it is expired. Our problem is if this i...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Enable Dynamic Carrier and Carrier Service Selection in ScheduleOrder Transaction

We request an enhancement to the IBM Sterling Order Management System (OMS) to allow the ScheduleOrder transaction to dynamically compute and assign the best available Carrier and Carrier Service when these are not explicitly specified on the Orde...
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Under review

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Remove true or false in extended field and partner group

Hi, in the extended fields there is partner group who is not consistent. When you not choose a field then it's empty, but if you choose and regret it you have to fill in true or false..
11 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Provide option to prorate discount under ChargePerUnit and ChargePerLine while applying promotion in call center

Currently if we apply promo code during order creation in call center or applying promo code during order modification in call center, discount amount is getting applied under 'ChargePerLine', because of this discount amount is not excluding prope...
over 5 years ago in Call Center 1 Future consideration

add more logging for MAX session /statistics

Better monitoring, prevent issues when MAX sessions are reached.
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Include the SA steps as part of run-as-root | C:D installation and upgrade

The customer noticed Connect Direct services are impacted post RHEL 8 upgrade (from previous RHEL versions 7.x) . The SA needs to perform a few steps (outlined in https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-sterling-connectdirect-unix-fails-start-red-ha...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists