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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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To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

MyFileGateway interaction when PEM/PCM is installed

This affects businesses who use "MyFileGateway" to allow their external customers to upload files. Have a customer need for MyFleGateway, when integrated with PEM/PCM to pull file transfer upload success/failure and/or routing information from PCM...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add an SSP's setting to Increase/Decrease from SSP 64K Buffer Size up to 128K

1. By default, SSP uses an RU (Resource Unit) Buffer Size of 48K RU when passing through file. 2. When a PNode is sending in Secure+ mode, it encrypts the data into 16k SSLB buffers and stuffs them into an RU. SSP must unload these SSLBlocks and d...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
11 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...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Regular expression flexibility for Search and Replace Xprocessor in BPNST Tool

Currently we have search and replace xprocessor for search a specific character/sequence of characters and replace with another character/sequence of another characters and if we need more characters to be search and replace then it's time taking ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Send connection down status file to Inflight at configured interval (Customer specific - dynamic) when SAP connection to specific host is down for longer time

Currently we are receiving connection down/up status files to Inflight at initial times and we need one more file for connection down in order to notify the Customer if the connection to specific host down for longer time. It's sort of SEV1 issue ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Under review

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

myFG2.0 deployment on multiple HTTP Server Adapter

myfilegateway1.0 can be hosted on different http server adapters and that helps to split the traffic and achieve high availability but the same is not possible with mfg2.0, updated version of myfg2.0 should have same flexibility as old version of ...

Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration