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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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User Role Page should have the ability to see the users assigned to particular role

This feature will be very useful for Client Admins to see the names of the users to whom a particular role is assigned. Also, for IBM team it will be good to know from UI who the client admins are for every client and we can keep a check on number...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Need the ability to disable the Shut Down the System link within Troubleshooter

Currently the Troubleshooter page has a variety of highly valuable Operations tools, but often there is a need to disable specific functions within the Troubleshooter, not the least of which is the Shut Down the System (softstop) option. Operation...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Include Sorting Option for All SST Tabs

Currently only a few V2 SST tabs have the sorting option such as customization and certificate. The configration and Server & Queue Configration don't have such sorting feature. Please enable the sorting feature for all tabs in SST. We have hu...
29 days ago in Self Service Tool 0

ITX 277CA Processing

Allow for detection of syntactical error in claim by STC0101, and also including an Entity code so that resultant 277CA is valid per use of the STC0102 value of 19: At each HL level in the 277, there could be rejected claim(s) due to invalid synta...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Under review

SI's bpml should support XPath 3.1

When writing Xpath in bp's, the xpath supported is XPath 1.0, which was published in 1999. XPath is currently up to version 3.1.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 3 Future consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Capabilities to connect to Google Cloud Storage bucket

Currently there is no adapter or services which enables us to connect to a Google cloud storage bucket. It would be really good to have this functionality.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

PGP Adapter : Enable support for different Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm

The OpenPGP adapter does not support all of the latest set of Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm natively. Below are the list of supported values Compression types (-COMALG) : ZLIB Encryption Algorithm (-ENCALG ) : 3DES , RIJNDAEL256...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Under review

PCM File Reprocessing

User would like the ability to see the status updating with the appropriate status once a file has been reprocessed. Example when a file has been reprocessed user would like to see the different stages the file is flowing though (Processed, Timed ...
2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted