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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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Build "Mass Data Compare Tool" that can handle comparing any payload formats in bulk

Customer wants IBM to compare their post translated data between SCBN outputs and outputs from their on-premise systems. They want to pump 3-4 months worth of data via new solution and have all those files compared against similar outputs from the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Not under consideration

Standalone Java upgrade

Considering enhanced focus on Java vulnerabilities and the frequency in which they are discovered, its difficult to keep pace with resolving them, if every time Product upgrade is needed. Please see if the Java upgrade can be done stand alone for ...
20 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Smaller Stack/Images

Currently, IBM Sterling has a very monolithic deployment, which means that the entire OMS scope is included in the deployment image.Especially in cases of limited use, where a customer does not use all functions, customers have to install signific...
20 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Upgrade WLP standalone

WLP releases new versions every month, as per organizational policy of n-2 we always stay non-compliant with any product upgrade. By the time product upgrade is released at-least 1 newer version of WLP would be present. Internal cycle to deploy SI...
20 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Cleanly handle EBICS Requests with no post data or methods other than POST

Customers regularly receive requests to the EBICS URL which have no post data. This causes the EBICS handler BP to throw a NULL document error creating noise in the logs and meaning the BP fails. Sometimes this is just an error but often the EBICS...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Image build process without root privileges

User Story: For the current build process buildah is used in the base image and this requires the image to run in privileged mode. In our company we are using kubernetes to run containerd as a runtime to host shared gitlab runner which are used to...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review