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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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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

API to get ATP for LOT-TAG Number considering unassigned demand

CLient want to sell items on the order capturing channels and want to promise to the customer only if inventory & its corresponding tag/lot number are available. Requirement - OMS API that can give us availability at the LOT/TAG Number level, ...
6 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

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

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

Support for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

Update CDZ by Control Center Director

Possibility to update CDZ through Control Center Director
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

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

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1

A new WARN() function, which would work similar to FAIL()

I propose a new function WARN(), which would work in a similar way to FAIL() and end the map with a specific warning code.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration