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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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Support token based authentication for HTTP adapters and Product REST communications

We are using the 6.1 product REST, the REST Auth.war and a set of custom REST services (the latter two in HTTP Adapters). We have a security challenge on the use of Basic Auth for securing these services which we access via a gateway (Tyk) from a ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

XML to EDI outbound data does not inlcude reference to ST envelope within InFlight

Whether source format is FLAT file or XML file, we should always display ST envelope details in inflight (if we can find a match during enveloping service). In a nXML_TO_EDI flow, XML flow uses typing service where a typing map is executed (instea...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Support for Mac M1/M2 users running OnPrem containers.

On Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10Fix Pack: 37 (10.0.2209.2) When running the Fixpack 37 in the local docker environment, the SMCFS container is getting terminated with error code 255. While investigating the issue, found that this is due to running...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

OMS Kubernetes Deployment - Add Labels

In the containerized version of OMS, the pods themselves have Kubernetes attributes called Labels, which allows us to filter by them during deployment (for example, to deploy only those whose "role" is "agentserver". However, Kubernetes has a Reso...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Support generic S3-compatible object store for document storage

On the Sterling roadmap is support for backing the B2Bi container document store with cloud object storage. Our company has on-site S3-compatible object storage (via Dell EMC ECS) - please ensure the S3 support includes S3-compatible setups and no...

Enable Adhoc Email Link for file downloads without User Login Credentials

This is a business need with most enterprise's we have had conversation. While we have stressed on the aspect of Security concerns and its impact. The clients have strongly evinced interest for this capability as the dependency is high on IT and T...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Functionality already exists

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

Add support for JN Union HSM devices

This will allow secure use of the platform in China.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Not under consideration

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