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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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Schedule Server to Stop and Start through SST

Currently the SST allows to set the scheduling of the server to either Trigger at a certain time or to Start and Stop within the 24 hours. We would need the ability to schedule the Data Extract Server to be stopped during the weekily DB Reorg bein...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

E-Invoice: Storing Failed Delivery documents when Archiving the invoice in Inflight

There is a legal requirement to also keep failed delivery documents from failed invoices in Italy. Right now when a failed invoice reaches 30 days old then it gets archived. When archived all events + attachments in the events get removed so there...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Compliance check for CONTROL map

In ITX v10.2.1 supply chain we observed that there is no compliance check on CONTROL Messages. As part of WDI to ITX Migration , we would need to have the compliance check when CONTROL messages are received as input to ITX.
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Planned for future release

Logging is needed WHO and WHEN downloaded a file from Sterling Dashboard or FileGateway

When debuging file flows it is useful to see how the file looked before the transformation and how it looks after transformations. Due to compliance reasons on production systems it is necessary to see WHO and WHEN downloaded the file and viewed i...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

EASI standards in Sterling Integrator

Hi , Please let me know how we can incorporate EASI standards into our Sterling Integrator map editor . We have Trading Partners that want send data & receive data via EASI standards . The EASI transactions used are mostly 850,856,810,846 . We...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Is a defect

referenced TypeTree (parts)

You can build one TypeTree or one strucutre and can use it for example as part of choice-group in another TypeTree. Everybody that use TypeTree as a kind of central unit and have to reuse these structures in other interfaces will benefit.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

SCC does not capture SFG Custom Events

Hi, We have installed ICC 6.1 and we are creating a portal kind of monitoring stuff to monitor all SFG files in ICC Console ( File Monitor). We have created custom events to track additional data in SFG. There are some fields we want to capture fr...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

On the Code (List) Info form, put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data fields much wider

Please put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data entry field as wide, or wider, than the size of the Description data entry field.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration