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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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Enable TLS support for JDBC database connection

Cannot find any reference in Sterling B2B Advanced Communications documentation that TLS is supported for connections to the database. Requesting to add support for this feature.
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Provide a compiler for TX on other operating systems than Windows

Current version of TX only support compiling of maps and systems on Windows. This also impacts compiling of BAR files when a flow contains a TX node. Since most build systems run on Linux, it would be easier to configure and run TX compiles on a L...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered

ITX HIPAA Compliance Check - Include validation of NPI number

Enhance the HIPAA Compliance Check to validate that the NPI number in the X12 transactions is a valid format. NPI Must be 10 characters long, starting with a 1 or 2 and the first 9 digits are used to calculate the 10th character, as a check digit.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 1 Delivered

NCPDP - Compliance Check

Create a Compliance Check for NCPDP Pack Transactions similar to the HIPAA Pack Transactions.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 2 Delivered

X12 Transaction 005010X216 278N

EDI X12 Transaction 005010X216 278N is not included in the type tree for compliance check for the HIPAA Pack. The transaction is also not included in the EDI X12 pack (per Greg McEachern). Please create the type tree and update the compliance chec...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Delivered

Having a possibility to do use regular expressions would be nice

It regularly happens that WTX has to apply regular expressions, and at the moment this needs to write eiher an external function (which in turn involves adding C development to the projects) or Java (which requires using JEXIT + possibly adding Ja...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 3 Delivered

WTX-Plugin: 64bit EXIT() call

While WTX is available in 64bit, its C-API (runmerc.h) remained 32bit. This leads to a bottleneck. WTX mappings without C-API EXIT() calls work with huge files (>4GB), but WTX mappings that make use of the C-API EXIT() call can handle 1.9GB onl...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Please validate the latest Windows Server OS to work with WDI V3.3 and the client installs

Our server group is pushing the upgrade of all servers running Windows Server 2003 as it is EOL for support through Microsoft. The stress is on getting it to work in 2012 R2 as that is the preference.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 0 Delivered

All SSP logs controllable via LOG4J

From: Linzy Zhu [mailto:linzyzhu@us.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 7:57 AMTo: Chris SandersCc: Brad Zickert; Trainer, Jeffrey A; Bennett, Michael Z; Vipin MittalSubject: Re: Monthly Touch point Meeting Between FTS and IBM. Thanks Chris! Mich...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.0 and 6.1 - When will there be compatibility with Oracle Java 8?

When will Control Center be compatible with Oracle Java 8? I ask because our company has installed Java 8 in many of our environments because of security issues with Java 7. Control Center 6.0 and 6.1 are not compatible with Java 8. It does work t...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Delivered