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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 your automated email on a VAN Failure transmission to us

We sometimes receive emails entitled: "IBM Sterling Information Broker Services (System Notification) - Message Undeliverable".The email tells us something went wrong sending a message from someone to someone. It lacks any useful information to he...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Not under consideration

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Certified Container - db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached

db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached so the logs can be retained even after the auto deletion of db-setup pod. IBM asks for the logs but because the db-setup pod auto deleted so even the ephemeral logs also get deleted which are very imp...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists

IBM CoC Data Extract Agent - To be able to pull data within specific time range. Need ability to provide startts and endts for the agent to run to extract older records.

Currently CoC Data extract agent doesn't have the ability to pull records within a specific date range. We understand that the data extract tool is currently designed to extract data on an ongoing basis. In case we decide older data (past one mont...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Protect SFG for event flood caused by large volume GET requests of very small fiels

When the File Gateway is hit by a very high amount of GET requests to download small files will cause an event flood. As these events are tracked in the visibility db, this may cause the system to "hang" - all threads blocked - as the visibility d...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action

The Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action to perform user customized actions like Rest API to push the partner details to customer LDAP or customer custom tables for auditing or other purposes. As SSO implementation is getting int...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Planned for future release

Simple silent upgrade for Connect Direct Web Services

According to IBM Support, for Connect Direct Web Services software, SILENT UPGRADE option requires to provide few additional parameters to silentInstall.properties file (e.g. SSL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD) in comparison to INTERAC...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

ITXA - Missing GS ID causes entire file to fail validation

During the Deenvelope service, missing envelope for GS id causes the entire file to fail. The process should fail only the missing GS and continue processing the rest of the file.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration

Request for caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter

Hello , We have review your questions and comment with our developers in order for this result caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter, a design change would be needed in order to cache the Oracle statement handle. Currently, WTX Oracle adapter on...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Clean the map cache without restarting launcher

Today every time we need to change a map in launcher environment the launcher has to be restarted because the maps are cached there.It doesn't matter if the maps are used directly in the flow or ran by RUN function. For High Availability productio...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration