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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.
2 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.
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Other 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...
5 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...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 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.
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered

Enable New ProcessingFlags 4/5/6 to support complex implementations

We are currently supporting ProcessingFlags 1/2/3 only in GIODE. These processing flags are preserved and passed to down stream flows (from parent to child processes). They are available in rule conditions as well to decide data routing. We would ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Delivered

Single Sign-on (SSO) with SAML or OIDC authentication is required for the Sterling User Interfaces (UIs), including C:D, SSP, SEAS, SFG, SCCM and SCCD. Migration from a legacy LDAP connection to a federated (SAML or OIDC) connection is required for all UIs, by US Federal Agencies.

This is required to comply with US Federal Security requirements mandated to all US Federal Agencies.
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Delivered

API Communication Protocol Enhancements in relation to Transfer Attributes passed to GIODE

Action 1: Enhance the /payloads API to produce XML output based on the ‘Accept’ header. Respond with a 200 status for application/xml and application/json requests. Action 2: Limit the overall payload size for /payloads to 4MB and the size of a si...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Delivered