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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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Provision to store Node Availability during release creation for future reference and insights on actual stock position used during allocation

Currently post release (during back-end fulfillment process), Sterling has no insights on the stock position for that item on the node during release creation. Hence it is difficult to reconcile or justify instances where Store and DCs have repo...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 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...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Not under consideration

Multi Factor Authentication with Email or App Verification for HTTPS Users (MyFileGateway)

We have an urgent business/security requirement for a Multi-Factor authentication and Dual Authentication from trading partners. Our current systems runs on V 6.0.0.2 SFG Version. Can SFG V6 and above support 'Dual Authentication' and 'MFA' ? Dual...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

Enhance Putaway Preferences

As part of this request, we would like to address 2 issues: Putaway preferences are not assigning putaway locations directly (using include/exclude locations) and we had to implement a workaround using location dedication to a specific inventory s...
5 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Under review

Stream data for excel adapter

According to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ITX-I-27, it is mentioned that the excel and pdf adapters can handle stream data while integrating with B2Bi or ITXA. However as per the case TS014440463, there is a limitation for excel adapter to read fro...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Functionality already exists

Sharepoint Integration

We are getting a lot of requests to transfer files directly to a sharepoint site using connect direct
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Provide availability and functionallity for Property Files from DB in order to use them in containers and On-Premise installations (essentially customer_overrides) description:

According to Support/Lab advice, we proceed to open the following RFE. The intention is to provide fully the use of properties from databases no matter if there is being used an on-premise or containers installation of the SBI. This functions were...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

PEM application should have a user interface option for data deletion for all the components

In order to conduct penetration testing and identify vulnerabilities, it is sometimes necessary to create specific resources to assess how these vulnerabilities could be exploited. However, it is crucial to emphasize that the data or files generat...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration