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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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Create alert if the adapters do not come up after SI server comes back up.

It is critical for us when the SI app server comes up after being down or after patching to know if the required MQ adapters, Http server and Http Client adapters come up as expected. We want to be alerted if the MQ adapters and HTTP Server and HT...
11 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

Remove/hide the IP address (other address) from the transmission copy step screen.

Request for enhancement for Batch Operations: The Batch Operations team manages file transfer for latency and errors 24x7/365. Part of this process is sending a screenshot to the client, vendor or internal team to work through getting the failures...
12 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Under review

Oracle DB credentials rotations with zero downtime for OMS

Hi IBM, We have an internal security compliance requirement to meet the rotation policy for DB passwords. In the process, Can you please let us know if 1) there are any in-built OOB utilities of sterling OMS to achieve this DB password rotation co...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Conditional Runtask/Runjob

We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Under review

Option to include Associated Data file in the Enhanced Reporting Notification (ERN) Emails

We are currently sending metadata and translation error report only in ERN emails. Customer wants us to include input data file that caused failures as one of the file attachments in ERN emails. This will help their support team to look at the inp...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Under review

generate a PDF file with the images and tables using the details in the received input file.

PDF adapter needs more power to generate pdf files with images and tables using the data from the input file/message.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Include SORBNET maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to incude support for SORBNET (Nati...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review