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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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Connect:Direct with ability to connect to IBM Cloud Object Storage using API key and store files on COS

The request is mainly for providing capability in Connect:Direct for reading and writing files from IBM Cloud Object Storage and specifically by using API key while connecting to IBM COS from Connect:Direct.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

To Have a configuration which allows teams to consider multi-level sub vendors to create Chained order duringexternalize Inventory

Consider a scenario -We want to externalize inventory which is a Microservice outside OMS. We have a Organization set as below-Enterprise --> Main Vendor -->Local Area Vendor --> Actual store/person who has inventory. In this case with cu...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Under review

Keep the display length selected for a page when returning to that page

When working in Card Builder (for instance), the default page length to display Cards is 10. It can be modified for the current display, but changing page and returning to it resets the page length. It would be a good idea to maintain the page len...
3 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Sync Supply to have a capability to just report the mismatches and not apply the differences.

We want a capability in SIP to just report / publish an event with the mismatches evaluated during the inventory synchronization flow and not always apply the same. Something similar to the " ApplyDifferences " capability in the GIV world. There a...
3 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

Ensure failover detection ping from SSP PS can be recognized as such in B2B

These pings are causing literally thousands of errors in our C:D logs on B2B every hour - as the C:D server adapter can see the pings hitting the port but recognizes that they are not valid C:D sessions. A recent health check performed by IBM/Sabr...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service for communication between cross account for S3 bucket. This is private S3 bucket.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Show source IP and user in log for ALL attempts

It is useful to scan logs with security tools to look for patterns in brute force access to the B2B Integrator instance. None of the logs today contain the real source IP of connection attempts. Only certain logs show the perimeter server IP the r...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Decompress and read .tar files

Currently BPN tool is able to unzip and extract only .zip files. We have customers and trading partner ( for Ex : Electrolux) sending us .tar files. Requirements are to unzip the .tar files and extract the files within. This is not possible using ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Enable partial line cancellation in Order Hub

Partial line cancellation currently works from Order Hub (only post turning ON 'Add Qty' modification rule for required order line and release statuses from DOM) – however it also enables line quantity addition feature which is not desired. There ...
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration