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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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Ability to trigger alerts when a certain type of EDI X12 document not received or sent within certain time frame

It would be useful as we can do all the monitoring in Control Center rather than having scripts that we currently use.
about 4 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

Master Data Governance functionality

this feature was advertised for Q1/Q2 2025 but has not been delivered and no information about the delay exists anywhere, is this coming soon?
1 day ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Automating Work Queue

In certain circumstances there would be an efficiency if a Work Queue could be automated, either completely or under certain conditions (Ex. If a material in the Min Max increase/decrease, if it matches a Business Impact selected, or for certain v...
1 day ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Ability to select TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 both for a node.

Currently Sterling Secure Proxy has the ability to support mixed mode of TLS 1.1,TLS 1.2. We have some partners who need to move to TLS 1.3 where as other continue to use TLS 1.2. Hence need the ability to select mixed mode of TLS 1.2,TLS1.3 .
1 day ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

hipaa compliance check support for EDI X12 824 transaction

ITX healthcare pack currently does not support compliance check for EDI X12 824 transactions. We are using ITX healthcare pack for our implementation and have a requirement to perform type 1 to type 7 compliance check on 824 transactions.

Databricks connector for SB2Bi

Today, Databricks is a major player in the data industry. The strategic directions of the Group have led to the construction of an Azure Data Lake, and the data management solution implemented to ingest, process, and expose data in this DL is Data...

SSL Certificates Management (CA, Trusted, System)

Certificate management in SB2Bi requires a lot of handling because nothing is managed dynamically. To establish an HTTPS connection, it is necessary to specify the SSL server certificate (CA Certificate) to be used for negotiating the transaction....
5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Simplify purge process in accordance with purge policy of OMOC

The current purge process is very cumbersome and doesnt allow a client to meet the expectations of the purge policy defined by OMS. Current process to purge order/shipment/returns data has these dependencies and checks The purge functionality pr...
7 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Known Host Key Configuration - Host Value - expand characters limitation

On 6.2.0.2 of SSP, using the new REACT's interface SSL : To create a new "Known Host Key Configuration" in Known Host Key Store, the field Host IP (optional) is limited to the following characters : .:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST...
7 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Provide an option to perform non-recursive file listing on AWS S3 buckets in Sterling B2B Integrator.

Currently, the AWS S3 list operation in Sterling B2B Integrator is always recursive. When a bucket (or its subfolders) contains a very large number of files, the list operation becomes extremely heavy. This causes Business Processes to hang, time ...
7 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted