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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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Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
over 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Needed feature to disable User Account and corresponding RestAPI

Currently in Sterling B2B Integrator Product, user account can be either edited or deleted, there is not option to "disable" it. There are business scenarios where business need to disable user account for certain period of time (days or months) a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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, ...
8 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0

Please turn on the ability to include formulas in new work queues.

We have thoroughly enjoyed the new functionality of being able to create work queues; however, 9 times out of 10, I need to include a simple formula. It can be very painstaking to work these issues through support tickets, and it would be so much ...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

We need to a native support of OpenSSL encryption as we have for PGP

Banks needs different ways to enrypt files at rest, and they need native support from the sterling solution instead of using CLI adaprter or other mehods
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Officially support EBICS v3.0.2

The EBICS org published a revised specification for v3.0 on June 27th 2022 to replace previous versions (3.0.0 and 3.0.1) with effect from December 30th 2022. All customers wanting to use EBICS v3 in the IBM EBICS Server and Client must be able to...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Future consideration

referenced TypeTree (parts)

You can build one TypeTree or one strucutre and can use it for example as part of choice-group in another TypeTree. Everybody that use TypeTree as a kind of central unit and have to reuse these structures in other interfaces will benefit.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Add Reservation demand to the Demand Publish Event.

During reservation create/Update/Delete, demand publish should publish the reservation demand data to the topic. This will help business to make decisions to control the sale real-time during Checkouts and cancels.
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Planned for future release

Enable user exits for the Connect Direct Server Adapter

The Connect Direct Server Adapter in B2B Integrator supports the Connect Direct transmissions protocol but does not support other Connect Direct features which are of value to our customers. If the CDSA could function more closely to a Connect:Dir...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Planned for future release

Add Solace to the list of supported vendors for JMS 1.1

Right now Solace is not listed under the supported vendors and configurations for JMS 1.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=adapters-supported-vendors-configurations-jms-11
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration