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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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Easiest way to scan all BPs in B2Bi

Need ability for users to search inside the BPs for a keyword or search string. In B2Bi Dashboard has ability to search for code in XML/BPML directly from dashboard. Example I have defined one custom service in the business process and I want to k...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

System level failure Notifications

Purpose of this request: Files entering IBM B2B SaaS solution should create failure notifications if failed. This is working fine when a file is failing in Inflight – Processing step. However, 2 areas are identified when no failure notification is...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications / Inflight 1 Under review

Include active MAXUSERS in high water mark SMF record

Highwater mark SMF record should include Active MAXUSERS to have full pictures of how region is performing. We've experienced BTL issues relating to high MAXUSERS counts and we don't have accurate insight into how many users are active at that time.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1

New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Capability to suppress emails as part of onboarding partners

As part of the partner onboarding when a customer wants to onboard partner to PEM emails notification on the onboarding status gets generated. We currently dont see any configurable options to control the behavior of the application. So customer w...
4 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration

Ability to View Message, Put Message, and View Oldest Message in Queues for Prod and Preprod Envs

In QA and DEV under Queue configuration > Queue Processes we have options for -Put message -view message -view oldest message -delete queue -clear queue In Preprod and Prod we only have options for -delete queue - clear queue We cannot troubles...
7 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

ITX - Allow Launcher logging and adapter tracing to report milliseconds

Customers are reporting performance issues so support has the customer enable the launcher compound system logging the logs only report hour:minute:second. With maps running quickly based on cpu speeds today, often enough customers are trying to f...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Not under consideration

Add B2Bi REST API audit logs

B2Bi Rest API is becoming common in several solutions but there is not a proper audit log file or report to verify information like " USER - ACTION / API - TIMESTAMP" It is difficult to understand what is actually being consumed, by whom and how ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review