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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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One Activity with the final Name rather than having all activity with the different Name.

Currently in PEM, if we "Mark as Final" one activity with a certain name then we cannot use the same name for any other activity even if we delete that particular activity. This cause a lot of issues with the non-development personal as to which v...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Include Sorting Option for All SST Tabs

Currently only a few V2 SST tabs have the sorting option such as customization and certificate. The configration and Server & Queue Configration don't have such sorting feature. Please enable the sorting feature for all tabs in SST. We have hu...
7 months ago in Self Service Tool 0

Need milliseconds in Source timestamp in IV

Currently in IV we have field "sourceTs" :"2021-02-24T18:42:01Z" but it does not contain milliseconds in it.
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Functionality already exists

Create an archived/purged report for all BP's purged at a given time

When seeing spikes/drops in DB size it would be helpful to determine what may have caused. DBSTAT does nothing in this regard. It would help if a report could shows all BP's names and number of executions for given point and time.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Develop an adapter that facilitates seamless connectivity between Oracle Cloud and IBM B2BI

Develop an adapter that facilitates seamless connectivity between Oracle Cloud and IBM B2BI , in a manner similar to SAP SNC (Supply Network Collaboration). This adapter aims to enhance data integration, communication, and collaboration between Or...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Needs more information

Provide a secure location for SaaS customers to store API secret IDs and keys so that they can more securely manage the application

As a part of any OMS implementation, integration with 3rd party external system is common. It will be great if IBM OMoC provided a secure vault solution to store API secret id and keys. For On Prem, customers could encrypt the secret id and keys. ...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement for S3 Put service in Sterling Integrator tool

we need to invoke the AWS S3 Put BP from a parent BP. The AWS S3 Put BP always asks for a path of the source file and it doesn't take the file from parent BP like other BPs/Services Hence, we need an enhancement to achieve this without giving a...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Add default version to codelists endpoint

Currently the codelists endpoint of the B2BI API does not include the default version of the codelist. This makes it impossible to know which version of a code list is currently the default version and doesn't allow for the ability to update the d...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 5 Future consideration

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

Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration