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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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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...
10 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Ability to consider unassigned demands (no assigned node) in availability calculation

The Get Network Availability API exposed in Inventory Visibility mandate Distribution Group to be passed in the input. The API does not consider OPEN_ORDER/ BACKORDER demand types while computing the availability in IV. This leads to inconsistenci...
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 8 Future consideration

Enable File Visibility Control features in PEM Community Manager

In PEM Community Manager's, roles are assigned to users, allowing them to view file content from File Transfer Search. However, there is a security concern as users with these roles also have the capability to edit and upload files directly from t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Submitted

Adding scheduler functionality in PEM just like we have in SI.

Hi Team, I am writing in regarding to a missing functionality in IBM PEM which is Scheduler. Currently, in PEM whatever we want to do can only be done via an Activity and to make it happen we need to manually execute an activity everytime we want ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow Connect Direct processes "Waiting on I/O" to stop consuming a Thread (similar to how SFTP operates)

In order to expand usage of Connect Direct inside B2Bi, Connect Direct processes need to behave similar to other protocols. Connect Direct consumes an entire Thread (queue watcher) the entire time a Connect Direct transfer is occurring. With other...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

One Activity with the final Name rather than having all activity with the different Name.

Currently in PEM, if we "Mark as Final" one activity with a certain name then we cannot use the same name for any other activity even if we delete that particular activity. This cause a lot of issues with the non-development personal as to which v...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Hooks to enable the SSO Authentication for SSPDashboard URL

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over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Not under consideration

Improve debug capabilities on failed maps

When a map is deployed and fails translation, it is very difficult to find out the reason of the failure. A clear report on what has been the failure, as the Translation service of SterlingB2B Integrator, that includes type or error, iteration cou...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration