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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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Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Being able to send large files up to 1 TB files

Would like the ability to send larges files up to 1TB in sizes. Currently ssp-engine has a limit in its ICAP configuration to 10 GB. This is too small for the use cases that my company will handling.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Submitted

be able to schedule the deployment of a map/ envelope

We are used to receive requests to move map, envelope or code lists to Production on specific date/time. Sometimes we need to contact teams from other geographies for them to finish the work because the time is out of our business hours.It would b...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

API and Events to provide Fulfillable Availability (available quantity that are fulfillable) by doing sourcing rule discovery to get distribution group or nodes or node types to generate network availability

Omnichannel Retailers would require to show what is the available quantity that are fulfillable to their customers based on where they are getting it delivered to / collected from (regional sourcing), what are the various product attributes (such ...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Under review

CDW - Reduce windows user permission on Transfer ID/Proxy ID instead of granting local admin

CDW - Reduce windows user permission on Transfer ID/Proxy ID instead of granting local admin Currently must required the ID to be part of the administrators group. If the TransferID/Proxy ID (AD user) can be a normal user, that would be great beca...
20 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Submitted

Mass approval of workflows

Hi team, Please note we are facing issues while approving bulk workflows as the selection and processing at a time are limited to 100 lines only. During mass reviews we are initiating multiple hundreds of WFs against which the approvers (especiall...
21 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...

10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration