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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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Add Ability to Lockout Accounts, System Wide, When Using SFTP Server Adapter

When an SFTP Lockout Policy is configured, we can specify the number of passwords an account can try before being locked out. This works great with a single SFTP Adapter. However, if multiple adapters are configured with a load balancer in from of...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 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...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under 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...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Some important Transaction log sorting and searching functionality is missing

Functionality that was previously available on premise does not exist in the cloud.Examples:Advanced search (using AND/OR operator on different attributes)Sorting on other columns than DateChosen view (number of transactions, visible columns etc) ...
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Needs more information

Ability to set EventThreshold at Node and DeliveryMethod level

Why is it useful? It provides ability to just publish only SHP or PICK Inventory Events (either Node or Dg level). Because in many of the IV implementations, where there is no separate Availability for SHP and PICK. In such cases, currently, the r...
19 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Support individual system RSU upgrade in CDPLEX environment

We are trying to achieve a high availability environment for CD with CDPLEX. Supporting RSU upgrade per system instead of per SYSPLEX will allow us to failover seamlessly if there is an issue with RSU upgrade on one particular LPAR.
20 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Under review

Support for JMS 2.0

Currently, in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator version 6.2.0, the supported JMS version is 1.1, and it's at its End of Life (surpassed by version 2.0). We are restricted by the Compliance and Security Team from using older versions of products or th...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.