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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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Single Sign On with Okta identity provider

currently Single Sign On with Netegrity SiteMinder is only supported. Requesting IBM to include Okta as Single Sign On provider with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator along with documentation.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

AWSS3ClientForB2Bi Adapter can't work to receive parameters from BPML

When using the AWSS3ClientForB2Bi Adapter and configuring the connection with S3 it works well. When working with BPML and trying to pass the connections to S3 by BPML it doesn't work. The idea is to allow BPML parameters to connect with S3.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

comprehensive search facility in PR

We need a comprehensive search facility in PR compared to what is there now. There are many to search in the PEM DB via PR. We probably can use a series of API calls but that is cumbersome to use. So having more advanced search options in PR will ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Planned for future release

Expose MQ API for monitoring queue manager health

IBM Websphere MQ comes with an OOTB REST API to allow other external integrations to check the queue manager health. This is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mq-appliance/9.1?topic=reporting-monitoring-queue-manager-health We would lik...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Kill Switch / Hardstop for Adapters in irresponsive stat

Hi Team, we had many occasions where an adapter is in irresponsive stat, and we will not be able to start the adapter via Sterling dashboard or via opscmd.sh / opscmd.cmd. We have tried many times to stop via opscmd.sh/cmd and start it still comes...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

Two factor authentication on SSP Config Manager for admin users

Access to SSP Config Manager GUI for admin users is via userid/password only. This request is for two factor authentication to be supported, via userid/password and RSA token
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Two factor authentication for admin users

Access to Sterling Filegateway for admin users is via userid/password only. This request is for two factor authentication to be supported, via userid/password and RSA token
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Update or Modification of Partner Configuration to the existing role out if incase of any failure

We are having issue deleting the partner ID from PEM.Below are the details:After completing the onboarding process, both PartnerName and PartnerId are generated and recorded in the Partner Information task. If a system failure occurs during the in...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Under review

Sterling Connect:Direct on RHOS on IBM Power

Support for Sterling Connect:Direct on RHOS on IBM Power is essential for technology modernization initiatives to support flexible deployment methodologies and technology strategies. This would benefit customers running Sterling Connect:Direct on ...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

File size for config Hub map tester should be increased beyond 50MB size limit, customer-Breakthrough beverage facing lot of failures

Our SCBN customer-Breakthrough beverage Corp facing lot of failures for processing Invoice to their partners as their file size is going beyond 50MB, same issue has been seen multiple times with other customers as well.File size for config Hub map...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration