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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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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.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 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...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Not under consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 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.
almost 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

myFileGateway activity search screen options are meaningless for external partenrs

'Producer', 'Consumer', 'Protocol' and 'Status' does not make much sense to external partenrs. They are too technical or better suitable only for FG admins. For example: 'Protocol' selection. Why this option is given to partner? He always logs t...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Functions to get internal information from within a running map

For logging/tracing purposes I'd like to be able to get actual information about the mapping/card/function/field I'm currently at. So I can write into a logging about that particular point in the execution. A bit like LASTERRORCODE() or GETRESOURC...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

Support SM2 Public Key Algorithm

SM2 is a four-part standard for public key algorithms specified by China. This enhancement is to support the file encryption and decryption by SM2 and perform file exchange with China.
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Provide read only access to replica DB

There are many known issues with Data extract agent, and IBM cognos is not an option for many clients. Please provide access to the replica DB, especially some sort of mechanism for analytics applications like Tableau.
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Not under consideration

Support MQ HA for configuring JMS Topic

The MQ infrastructure at our organisation is set up in a HA topology where we have multiple queue managers. The queue manager name is not provided to applications wanting to connect to the queues with the expectation that they use the default queu...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration