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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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PEM Cloud Application Outage Notification List

Currently, we have no way of knowing if there are PEM Cloud Application outages/issues. Having a outage email notification field will allow us to add a distribution list or a list of emails to contact us.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Allow ITX to handle Protobuf schemas

ITX currently can support AVRO schemas however there are other schemas that may be used depending on circumstances. One of these is the protobuf schema. Can this be added to the suite of schemas supported by ITX?
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

AS4 flow resiliency updates

Enhancements: Alerting mechanism to identify if the messages stuck in Kafka queue. Increase the number of retries to other Network if there are any network failure's causing the messages stuck in Kafka queue.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Update CDZ by Control Center Director

Possibility to update CDZ through Control Center Director
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

enable file transfer using smb protocol

In the current state, we will need to mount the samba file shares on the Sterling B2B Integrator hosted servers to be able to access the servers. It would be good to access the files using smb protocol without the need to mount the file shares.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Not under consideration

HTTP Proxy enablement on B2B Mail client Adapter

With the addition of OAuth2.0 authentication on Sterling B2B Mail client Adapter all connections to the Microsoft exchange server will now happen on Micro Soft cloud, which means that connection earlier would stay within the company's network, but...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration