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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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CreateNewAS2Relationship API - Improve performance of the API to match that of previous versions using shell script / BP approach

RFE: CreateNewAS2Relationship API Improve performance of the API to match that of previous versions. There was a security fix (IT40683) implemented in B2Bi v6.0.3.7 that was merged up through v6.1.1.3, then v6.1.2.2 impacting AS2 Relationships API...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement for R11 and R41 rules

Rule Type 11 is checking subelement values, but doesn’t return the bad value if no match. We wanted to populate the bad value as Data Content in Tack.html. As of now, there are no rules that could be used in this case. We need an enhancement for t...

Product xlsx template import : beeing able to specify tag records

On transparent Supply, beeing able to specif the tags to import ( ‘category’ for instance) when using Product data load through the XLSX file import.
4 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 3 Not under consideration

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1

Enhance RESTAPIClient service to retrieve headers

The current RESTAPIClient service is missing functionality to retrieve header information when calling an API. For example. When you do a call to an API (GET) with a custom header element (<X-CSRF-TOKEN>fetch</X-CSRF-TOKEN>) to fetch a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release