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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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Seeking AZURE service in Sterling Integrator 6.0

We have a requirement to connect Azure cloud and have in and out file transmissions using SI 6.0
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 7 Delivered

PEM API Test Capability

The PEM API documentation page does not provide a sample input and output message format for the APIs. Some of the API inputs are not intuitive and difficult to get to the correct format accepted by the APIs. If there is an easier API test capabi...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Delivered

Support for JSON schema : natively and type tree Importer

Currently the ITX product is designed to be used with JSON data, and not the JSON schema (Native and Importer). Example : "age": { "$ref": "secondary.json#/properties/age"} With more systems adapting to JSON based message transformation and use sw...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 Delivered

Docker Image for Sterling Connect:Direct

Almost all IBM integration tools (Datapower,IIB, MQ, WAS) has docker image. I got to know there is no Docker image for Connect:Direct.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 14 Delivered

Add support for SNI (Server Name Indication)

Add support for SNI (Server Name Indication) within the communication the appropriate communication protocols. It is an extension of the TLS protocol. For information on SI, please see: http://www.networking4all.com/en/ssl+certificates/faq/server+...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 17 Delivered

PEM - API Method to retrieve Trading Partner Standard User account information

Client has an audit requirement to generate a report of all PEM users (Sponsors, Trading Partner Administrators, and Trading Partner Standard Users). There are REST API methods to get Sponsor and Trading Partner Admin accounts, but not Trading Par...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 3 Delivered

Rest API to trigger a Business Process

Trigger a Business Process via API with 2 modes: 1- Synchronous : Wait for the Business Process Execution 2- Asynchronous: Trigger the BP and get a return code (BP started successfully)
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Support for wildcard certificate

At times we have customers who are using a wildcard certificate for SFG, or a certificate with multiple host names. PEM throws an error when trying to connect SFG if the host name in certificate and URL does not match.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Delivered

File Agent doesn’t support Certificate-based authentication, it will be difficult for us to manage the passwords on File Agent authentications.

We have around 35,000 Connect:Direct nodes and File Agents will be deployed across all the stores. We have a password policy where the passwords are going to expire every 90 days, Maintenance of these many nodes will be a tedious task. Switching t...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Need to be able to patch B2Bi with an Oracle SSL connection

Once B2Bi is installed you can configure an Oracle SSL connection per these steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.sb2bi_install_upgrade_526.doc/_shared_files/SI_ConfigDataTraffEncySSL_Unix.html However...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered