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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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Allow segregation of administrators to discrete lists of trading partners

Our organization has multiple business units. We need the ability to assign administrators so that they can make changes to only those accounts assigned to their business unit. Example - Trading partners A, B, and C are assigned to business unit A...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration

Remove case sensitivity in trading partner accounts logins

SFG/B2BI requires case sensitivity when our trading partners log into the system (abcd is not equal to ABCD). This is causing issues for our trading partners as we migrate from our legacy MFT that did not have this restriction.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Add capability to hard fail SSL error processes

When an SSL handshake error occurs, the process is placed in HO ER status. This does not trigger the same error alerts as file transfer failures when the process is pushed into HO ER status. If the same alert triggering would occur from session se...
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

To increase the limit of 16 character names (SNODEs) in the Secure+

Good morning Most of our transactions used in our transmission central services must be secured. So we need to use Secure+. Most of our transactions are using DNS value so the CDZ limit of 16 character defined in the network map is affecting us. M...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

SFG with PGP setup page with always trust option

My customer(KBANK Thailand) would like to use SFG with PGP and do not want to accept always trust when the customer would like to onboard the new their clients. My customer do not want to accept always trust by manual way. So need IBM File Gateway...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Allow email address to use as user ID

We have requirement to use email address as the user ID in sterling integrator.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
12 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Expose MQ API for monitoring queue manager health

IBM Websphere MQ comes with an OOTB REST API to allow other external integrations to check the queue manager health. This is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mq-appliance/9.1?topic=reporting-monitoring-queue-manager-health We would lik...
almost 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Provide scripting option to import, export, and deploy CDT xml files

The ssctl command can be used to upload and deploy customizations jar files. It would be nice to expand the functionality of this command to support the upload, download, import, export, and deployment of CDT xml files. This would enable automatio...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

ITXA BulkEnvelopeDelete

When using the UI &/or BulkEnvelopeDelete to delete actual envelopes it also needs to cleanup the SPE_TRANSACTION_REGISTER table entries!!
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 4 Needs more information