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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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Enhancing monitoring rules

Order monitoring rules should be based on the combination of count of orders in a particular status for a period of time. This will help to monitor the orders when an agent is not working fine or a technical glitch in the system and can react and ...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Planned for future release

Configuring Mailbox User Interface through HTTP protocol for Global Mailbox

We recently installed Global Mailbox on existing Sterling Integrator and currently working on migrating partners from traditional SI mailboxes to Global Mailboxes. We use SFTP, NDM (connect direct) and HTTPs protocols for file transmission. For SF...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add EDIID/Envelope Name & Map Name to 'Trading Relationships' avcivity report's 'Column options'

I have a report enhancement to request. HUSCO, Wabtec, Ball Corp and Pacific Cycle have all mentioned this to me in recent weeks. Backgound:Clients request custom reports from us at at times to pull an inventory of trading partners, envelope name...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Needs more information

Provide a read-only role for the Partner Repository

We'd like to be able to provide sponsor users who are not admins a way to have read-only access to the items in the Partner Repository, such as Code Lists, Generic Data, etc.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 1 Planned for future release

Provide a way for sponsor standard users to roll out an activity

We need to have our sponsor standard users to be able to roll out activities, while still being able to control their participation in a rolled out activity based upon the custom role they have been assigned to. Perhaps there could be a way, simil...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 1 Not under consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 5 Future consideration

Include SORBNET maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to incude support for SORBNET (Nati...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Planned for future release