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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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AzureClientForB2Bi adapter documentation

We are trying to connect to Azure blob using Adapter - AzureClientForB2Bi but we could not find any detail documentation about various file processing we need to do by connecting to Blob. Please help with documentation.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

BPN Rules levels with "Default with condition / Last preference with condition" option

We know the Default option in the BPN ST rules has the last preference when conditions are not matched. If we can have an extra option "Default with the condition" which works similarly to the "Default" option but it checks the condition. If still...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Implement Password rules for FTP(s) and SFTP Server Adapter External Authentication

Our platform is using IBM Sterling Integrator 6.1.1 Not using Sterling Secure Proxy All the accounts are created using local LDAP on the app servers. These accounts do not use IBM Sterling Authentication. FTP(s) or SFTP Following are the requireme...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration

prioritize items with same GTIN during fulfillment

Hi, We have an requirement from client on GTIN concept. A watch can be from different factories, like The China factory SKU would be AU1234, whereas the India factory SKU would be AU1234I or AU1234IE. And below are the requirements Consolidated In...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Update Installation Manager to use installed version of java

SBI currently requires IIM to install. IIM comes packaged with its own version of Java, which is typically out of date and (as instructed in a PMR) cannot be updated independently to bring into compliance. If IIM could be configured to use an inst...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Not under consideration

Tracking variables [PF1, Pf2 etc] in Inflight Event Details

The variables [like ProcessingFlag1/Flag2/Flag3 etc] for each transaction are being set either at the BPN ST rule level or Map or both. At present, the Event details for the Sucess/Error messages don't have these values tracked in Inflight. Is t...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Need to connect Sybase Database with ssl port using mercator (ODBC adapter)

Currently IBM Transformation extender tool (version 10.0.0) using ODBC adapter for sybase DB connections for creating .mdq file. We are able to connect syabse database with normal port but we are facing issue while connecting with ssl port. When c...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 5 Not under consideration

DeliveryLeadTimeUE should include order and order line reference in the input

Our current client implementation relies on product delivery on a specific date such as birthday. The product can only be delivered on that specific day, not a day before and not a day after. In order to achieve that OMS is relying on an external ...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Terminate the Process Waiting for Dynamic Allocation or Unallocation

CDz runs into temporarily unresponsive periodically 5 to 10 min or even longer due to the reason that SYSZTIOT ENQ exclusively held by CDz itself in which one process can't perform dynamical allocation or un allocation holding all other processes ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Limit CM-BACKUP to Defined Number of Backups

This would benefit all users of SSP who have the configuration managers set to backup on startup within the System Settings CMSystemSettings global tab. Right now SSP creates an unlimited number of backup. This requires users to run separate scrip...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration