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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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Make FGArrivedFile REST API useable.

A great use for the Sterling REST API would be to query the FGArrivedFile, FGRoute, and FGDelivery endpoints in order to build a modern delivery dashboard for business users.This is currently impossible with the current implementation due to a cou...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration

BPN Rule duplicate validation to avoid conflict in different files handling.

GISHI Orcharstration System does not have the validation to cross verify the duplication of existing rules, due to that, Implementation or Support Team creating the new duplicate rules for handling Customer or Partner new enhancements and it cause...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create Alerts in IBM Call Center for Commerce using HTML formatting instead of plain text.

We use alerts as a workflow system to report tasks to particular areas of the contact center to assist customers. The agents will copy and paste from a resource guide web page with the details they need to capture, having the format in HTML allows...
10 months ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

Include special characters (e.g. @) in Parameter Name of Obscure Data - Process Data Values service

We are using SI 6.0.3.2 and the Parameter Name does not allow special characters such as "@" being used in the Obscure Data - Process Data Values service. This prevents email addresses being used as Names.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Ability to add custom resource permissions for Store Engagement App

Application Manager currently restricts ability to add custom resource permissions for IBM Store Engagement application. This idea would provide ability to manage permissions for custom UI components in IBM Store Engagement application.
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Is a defect

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add DR profile when primary doesn't work

Provide feature to add disaster recovery(DR) IPs by various partners for their primary sites while we setup sftp or other protocol remote profiles while configuring the profile. As on date, there is no way for SFG to setup so that the disaster rec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Track users' changes for each item

This feature can be implemented as a new widget in item form or a new tab under Recent activity widget along with Note and workflow and only should display changes that users have made to an item. It's kind of an audit log and can be used in troub...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Solve Security issue user creditionals management console on ITX version 10

When you configure the management console on a Linux host (probably also on Windows) to connect to a launcher, You are required to configure the network connection to the launcher and the username and password to logon. This configuration is store...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Management Tools 1 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Windows 2022

My Customer needs to implement Connect:Express in Microsoft Windows 2022. However, we have support for Microsoft Windows 2019 not 2022.
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration