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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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Add Business Alias field in inflight for a process(Process ID)

Existing Document search in BPN has a required field "Business Alias". So along with DateTime Range ; one has to put BA to track any document flowing into the system. One has to search business alias from existing customers business alias. Also if...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

IV Full Sync: Ability to import inventory availability into OMS in batch mode and reset any items to o if there is no open relevant demands in OMS

The loadInvnetoryMismatch API is used to bulk load inventory (supply qty for each SKU/location combination) into OMS and this API has a feature (CompleteInventoryFlag) where the API can reset inv to 0 for any items that are not passed in the input...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

Node level safety stock values considered when calculating Network level SS

This feature would allow retailers who already define safety stock at node level to more easily leverage the new IBM safety stock rules because the values they set at node level can automatically be considered to create a network level value
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Let Control Center have the ability to monitor critical database system events on a monitored SI server

Today, if a B2BI node looses its connection to the database server, it sends out an email. I would like Control Center to have the ability to detect if that event has occurred and send out an alert.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

sftp client list service should have configurable parameter to list the number of files.

In certain customer sites, The file count that need to be picked up using sftp client services range from 1 to 100,000 from partner's sftp server. When we use the sftp client list service to list the files (when the file count is at max range) the...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

To be able to run a report of the maps that are actually being used in the data and how often the map is being used. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Columns so it would allow the Map names to show on the reports.

This will help to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps' usage. It could be ran as the inbound/outbound activity report is currently ran from within Inflight. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Column...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration