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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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Hold being applied during OrderCreate with Status as resolved

When an order is created it is sent through logic to determine fraud. The logic sets the fraud hold as either created (active) or resolved (inactive). Sterling is not looking at the status of the hold and putting the hold in a created(active) stat...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Modifying dp-config-batch-import script

https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ000000pF0EQAU/dpconfigbatchimport?language=en_US
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Data Power 1 Needs more information

Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Sterling B2B Integrator Container version ability to map to window servers

We are in the middle of a project to move from B2B/SFG on a Windows VM to a container environment using Red Hat OpenShift. The hold up for this project is our ability to map to windows servers. We have over 700 shares/directories to map. It is cri...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Give Integrated File Agent (IFA) the ability to point to a load balancer

Today IFA can only point to C:D on the same server. If it could use a load balancer, the workload could be distributed among multiple CD servers. It would also be nice to add HA support: if one IFA goes down, another one could pick up the work
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Request for Enhancement to Support Korean Legal Audit Requirements

As per Korean government legal requirements, we have received a request to provide an audit and data report covering user activity and actions performed in the KR region over the past three years, in alignment with internal compliance and security...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

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

Capacity calculation to honor Node's locale

Since Capacity is used to control the number of fulfillments to be done from a particular ship node (either Store or DC), its critical to have the capacity calculation is done in the DC's locale instead of UTC. We have this requirement at Lands En...
about 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Addition of RSASSA-PSS signing algorithm to IBM Sterling Integrator B2B

This singing algorithm was requested by a partner that we trade EDI messages with. They provided us with their new AS2 OCES3 certificate, which used RSASSA-PSS as the signing algorithm. What resulted was that we were able to transmit file but we n...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Inflight API: Ability to search or filter by Business Alias

Priority High Ask Ability to search or filter by Business Alias in the Inflight API Details of Ask Currently, Customer don’t have an option to search inflight transaction by passing BA field, It shows all the data for the company which constitutes...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review