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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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Is Sterling Connect:Express 1.5.0.17 compatible with Sterling Filegateway/B2Bi v6.2.0.4?

We need to know if these versions are compatible. Product upgrade planning depends on the response.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Other 1 Delivered

Is Sterling Connect:Express Windows 3.1.0.17 compatible with Sterling File Gateway/B2Bi 6.2.04?

We need to know if these versions are compatible. Product upgrade planning depends on the response.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Other 1 Delivered

Ability to setup by parameter in SB2BI the temporary File Transfer folder for S3 Amazon socket instead of <SB2BI install/tmp> hard coded

STELLANTIS Request: Using the S3 bucket Adapter, By default The file is exported to the product installation directory (<SI_install>/tmp) for the temporary storage, which is very dangerous because the filesystems dedicated to product install...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Delivered

Add support for AES encryption algorithm for encrypt_string.sh tool in Sterling File Gateway

Would like to add support for using AES-256 encryption algorithm when encrypting clear-text values using encrypt_string.sh (obscure values) utility within the Sterling File Gateway installation. Current method seems to be using TripleDES which has...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Delivered

Enable data filters based on Partner EDI ID and support logical "OR" operator

Inflight currently allows you to configure data filters based on the sender and receiver ID combination, but these values are joined using a logical 'AND' operator. We would like to enable data filters based on 'Partner EDI ID,' so customers can v...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Delivered

C:D Container support for more than 1 replica

Currently there is a known limitation where IBM Connect:Direct for Unix chart is supported with only 1 replica count It would be very hepful to support more than 1 replica to be able to operate on different pods that may be on different worker nod...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Delivered

CDWindows Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Official CDWindows product support for the Microsoft Windows 2025 OS , for future/standard lifecycle management purposes and continued OS supportability.
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

Containers should support logging to filesystem, console, or both.

Our containers need to be configurable via helm to log to either a persistent volume, the console, or both. A lot of our containers today support either console or persistent volume but do not allow both at the same time.
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Delivered

when ServiceAccount is getting created ahead of time instead of during the helm install, again ITXA ServiceAccount is getting called by default on Helm chart, which ultimately creating issue in the deploy

This RFE is for giving the customer a choice of whether to create a ServiceAccount or not(like createServiceAccount: true/false) While installing the ITXA container through the ArgoCD application, the ServiceAccount is getting created ahead of tim...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Delivered

EDI 27x - Invalid TA1 generated when the 27x Request is submitted with incorrect filler spaces

ITX/ITXA is generating invalid TA1 when the EDI 27x Request is submitted with invalid data element in the ISA02 of the Interchange Header. 27x Request submitted with incorrect filler spaces (9 spaces instead of 10) in the ISA02 of the Interchange ...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered