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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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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available in ru...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Need Corresponding Release of Vulnerabilities Fixed by Recently Released Patches/Fix Packs

There needs to be planned release(s) of known security vulnerabilities that are addressed in recent patches, i.e. 6.1.2.4 through regular channels (subscribed notifications). That seems to be how they've been released for IBM Sterling products in ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication, currently it just supports SQL authtentication, this is causing issues with keeping up to current security standards.
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Oracle DB credentials rotations with zero downtime for OMS

Hi IBM, We have an internal security compliance requirement to meet the rotation policy for DB passwords. In the process, Can you please let us know if 1) there are any in-built OOB utilities of sterling OMS to achieve this DB password rotation co...
20 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Enable option to view the code-list entries on Config Hub user interface

Can you please check and add an option where we can view the code-list entries directly on config hub screen instead of downloading csv file or checkout and quick edit options. we have this option on Config Center where we can view the code-list e...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Move $CL codelists from Legacy InFlight UI to Config Center UI under the company's Business Alias

When using $CL (codelist lookups via the Rules Engine), those codelists must be loaded to and maintained on Legacy InFlight UI. These codelists are difficult to update and maintain, cannot be exported, and also are not visible to clients using Con...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

API Endpoint for Document Envelopes

We are currently querying the SI tables directly to get data related to trading partner document envelopes. We prefer to use API endpoints to query data from our management tools.
21 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

ICAP scanning required for files pulled and pushed by Sterling Integrator

Files that are pushed by external vendors are scanned via ICAP protocol in Sterling Secure Proxy. But the files that are pulled by Sterling Integrator are not scanned as they do not pass through SSP. This leaves a big gap in the scanning feature o...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

Have the ability to edit the form view when opening an item from workflow or work queues

I have come to notice that, if I open an item from Workflow or from Work Queues, I do not have the same option to edit the form view that I do when I open an item from the Items tab. For some materials, I would be interested in different fields, a...
22 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release