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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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Out of box utility script to run on Sterling nodes to fetch CD adapters certificates for validation to make sure change is reflected on all cluster nodes to avoid impact to customers traffic

We had a critical incident in our production system (Case TS018513193 Critical issue - All Banks are not able to connect B2Bi Sterling) because of renewed CD certificate was not reflected across all customer nodes of B2Bi.All Banks are not able to...

Missing 'SH#' Bill of Lading in Document View Report

Dear IBM team. Currently, we're able to extract a report from the IBM Document Tracking. However, for our EDI 862 and Deljit Transactions, we are missing the BOL number (which is the SH# referred to in the file name column). This number, is not in...
1 day ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Auto-convert User Input to Uppercase

On the call-center homepage, there is a quick search text field that allows users to search for customers by entering their details. According to the official documentation, customization of the homepage is not supported. However, we would like to...
3 days ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Submitted

SSP - Resetting engine memory

Currently, SSP engines keep SSP CM configuration in memory. The memory is not cleared until the engine is restarted or a new configuration is pushed. The memory contains secured objects like private keys. These secure objects can be exposed as par...
2 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Add support for topologySpreadConstraints to helm chart for SSP engine container.

Need to be able to set the topologySpreadConstraints for the kubernetes PodTopologySpread plugin in the SSP engine helm chart. This option would enable better distribute of multiple SSP engines across availability zones in AWS EKS. I can use pod a...
3 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Enable SAPSTAT document tracking direction

For client Electrolux, we received a request to change the SAPSTAT Inflight tracking direction from Outbound to Inbound. I reviewed the rules, and it is already configured as Inbound under the SAPSTAT eval ruleset SendPod Action. However, the Infl...
12 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Submitted

add more logging for MAX session /statistics

Better monitoring, prevent issues when MAX sessions are reached.
5 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
12 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Submitted