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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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Ability to setup by parameter in SB2BI the temporary File Transfer folder for S3 Amazon socket instead of <SB2BI install/tmp> hard coded

STELLANTIS Request: Using the S3 bucket Adapter, By default The file is exported to the product installation directory (<SI_install>/tmp) for the temporary storage, which is very dangerous because the filesystems dedicated to product install...
7 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Azure Blob Storage Service Principal

Request that IBM update the object store client adapter to support authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would support configuring...
29 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to HOLD data at IBM during customer's maintenance window and RELEASE it after maintenance (SAP ALE Connections)

Couple of protocols like CD allows IBM to HOLD inbound data during customer's maintenance/outage window and release it when their system is back to normal. We don't have similar "HOLD" mechanism with other protocols like SAP ALE adapter. For Proto...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Enable New ProcessingFlags 4/5/6 to support complex implementations

We are currently supporting ProcessingFlags 1/2/3 only in GIODE. These processing flags are preserved and passed to down stream flows (from parent to child processes). They are available in rule conditions as well to decide data routing. We would ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Planned for future release

SIP Promising: Limit Sourcing to a node if node capacity exhausted by 'x' days

Retailer stores are open shop floor and it cannot accept unlimited picking across days - as of now for Standard/Nominated Home Delivery and C&C to other store considers today and tomorrow's capacity and C&C now and Local considers today, t...
8 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Reservation to block capacity

Reservation API as of now reserves only Stock and it doesn’t reserve corresponding capacities. This needs to be enhanced to reserve Node Capacity for each item and DELIVERY/C&C Capacity for each release level as a part of reservation If Capaci...
8 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

SIP Promise to consider last mile delivery capacity or instore collection capacity while calculating item delivery or pickup date in EDD and Shipment Assignment calculations

Retailer would like SIP to hold Transport (Last mile carrier delivery capacity) and Task (C&C Collection Capacity) with in SIP Capacity service which is fed by CMS/CAGS/Carrier and LMS and make use of the same in EDD/createShipmentAssignment c...
8 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Promising APIs to consider Item Attributes or Delivery Option to define capacityCategoriesToConsider

Use case: Retailer would like to have a ring fenced capacity for Standard Home Delivery, Express Home Delivery, Same Day Store Collection, Next Day Store Collection for items that belongs to particular department or falls under sale, this will all...
8 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enable IV to publish Network Availability events when Node Level or Network Level safety factor changes or comes to effect

Consumers of IV have a local High/Medium/Low cache needs to get an update when there is a change in Node Level or Network Level safety factor changes or comes to effect using the previous scheduled configuration to make sure they have up to date c...
8 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enable productAvailabilitySnapshot, dgAvailabilitySnapshot events available for container releases

The current SIP container releases does not have productAvailabilitySnapshot, dgAvailabilitySnapshot events - this is much needed as we ramp up onboarding new consumers to SIP IV
8 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release