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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 for an upload of the CD export as text file for defining rules

Connect Direct Administration, File Agent Configuration: There is no business justification for the time needed to rebuild a ser file should it ever become corrupt. The File agent configuration has a nice feature to export to text. However the o...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 5 Delivered

New EBICS Order Types NAA & NAB

My customer needs EBICS 2.5 Order Types NAA and NAB to be added to the supported ones for EBICS Server and Client. The customer is acting on behalf a german bank on EBA ACH and need to use these order types to exchange files between my customer an...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Delivered

Pricing Rule Configuration along with Payment Type selected so that the pricing rule gets triggered only when certain payment is entered

Based on Payment Types Pricing Rules need to be applied. This is required for Business as they can have Corporate Payment Types used to define various pricing. TS001167891 - have more details. We are trying to setup a pricing rule along with pa...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Delivered

ITX for PEPPOL

PEPPOL is a set of artifacts and technical specifications enabling cross-border eProcurement within the EU. Would be good if ITX comes with the support for PEPPOL standards. There could be huge business with validation and compliance check.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 2 Delivered

Enhance C:D to provide better support for zEDC datasets

We are implementing zEDC across our production environment and are trying to avoid mass updates to all of our C:D processes. We would like to be able to transmit a zEDC dataset without having to update hundreds of existing processes. Here is...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Delivered

The V10 WebUI should have impact anlaysis

Since ITX projects are storing artifacts (maps, schemas, connections, variablets) it 'knows' which maps use which schemas, etc. It would be very useful to be able to do impact analysis. How many maps use a schema? How many places is a variable re...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Delivered

File Agent doesn’t support Certificate-based authentication, it will be difficult for us to manage the passwords on File Agent authentications.

We have around 35,000 Connect:Direct nodes and File Agents will be deployed across all the stores. We have a password policy where the passwords are going to expire every 90 days, Maintenance of these many nodes will be a tedious task. Switching t...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Pull Process Data from multiple Elements of a BP in ICC

We have an urgent requirement for ICC - 1. Pull/Fetch the 6 elements of process data from SB2BI-BP into ICC to track the correlation of SB2BI. I have an open case with IBM regrading this but they requested me for RFE. 2. The above mentioned 6 elem...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Getting Multiple Files from AWS via Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0

We have the facility to put multiple files to AWS from Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0 but do not have code/facility to go with getting multiple files.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Delivered

Certify SQLServer2017 for Connect:Direct for Windows

Support for the later versions of supporting software