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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...
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...

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Add System Acknowledgment status generated off an outbound communication protocol result

In line with the current System Acknowledgment solution around sending a message back for an outbound transaction with the translation status (SYSACK1) and processing a functional Acknowledgement back from a trading partner for the corresponding o...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add Output File Size to Filter List in InFlight

Add a new filter that allows customers to search by the Output File Size. This should have an 'Equal / Greater Than / Less Than (Variable Condition). We should ALSO make this field available as a Column Selection in InFlight so customers can "show...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

ADD MQ headers to GIODE JMS connector

Currently JMS connector on GIODE supports only 25 header values. We have a potential customer who sends JMS headers with 40 values which caused issues while coming into GIODE via JMS connector. IBM is not able to read additional header values. Act...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Let Control Center have the ability to monitor critical database system events on a monitored SI server

Today, if a B2BI node looses its connection to the database server, it sends out an email. I would like Control Center to have the ability to detect if that event has occurred and send out an alert.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

Expected Ship Date on Transfer Order is pushed to Monday

We are facing issue related to Store to Store transfers. Transfer Order is created for a Pickup Order.It has expected Ship Date same as the Customer PICKUP date of actual Sales Order. This issue is replicable on Thurday and sat is allowed for tran...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 10 Not under consideration

Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Support

Many enterprises have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) as their standard. It would be ideal to add support for OEL OS, so customers can deploy the product without any if and buts we have today in our support statement. https://www.ibm.com/support/kno...

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Support

Many enterprises have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) as their standard. It would be ideal to add support for OEL OS, so customers can deploy the products (SSP CM/SSP Engine/SSP PS) without any if and buts we have today in our support statement. htt...