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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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Sterling Control Center does not show the process number of a Sterling Integrator business process

Sterling Control Center does not display the Connect:Direct process numbers from a Sterling Integrator business process going through the CDSA. This is because the process number is actually not passed from Sterling Integrator to Control Center. T...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Open diferent sheets from an excel file

We need to build a map where the input will be an excel file, but the information is retrieved from different sheets. Each file received contains a different number of sheets and the information will be retrieved by cells assigned in another inp...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Connect Direct Z/OS Password-less Sign-On : Use certificate authentication for the CD session. CD currently supports this for the API connection (e.g. port 1363) and exploring if this could be added for the server connection (i.e. port 1364). The goal would be to use the certificate Common Name as the user ID as we do for the API connection or expand to allow other sources for the user ID – Jobname, SPOE, in-line SIGNON, batch user ID, etc. – and define order of precedence.

Issue Description: Client has security initiative to remove passwords being exposed in jobs. If there is a sign on ID used it is ignored if there is a password less ID and defaults to the job card ID. If client removes password from the sign-on ca...

Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Expose MQ API for monitoring queue manager health

IBM Websphere MQ comes with an OOTB REST API to allow other external integrations to check the queue manager health. This is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mq-appliance/9.1?topic=reporting-monitoring-queue-manager-health We would lik...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Search 3+ Sender/Receiver ID's in New InFlight

Currently in New Inflight it is not possible to search or preclude different Sender / Receiver ID's. This would allow the client to search for results across many Different ID rather than have to search each ID one at a time, this saving time.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

ITX - Extend validation exception handling for messages with a known structure BUT an unknown (as more recent) version

Currently ITX FinPay routing map identifies a messages based on the tag <FIToFICstmrCdtTrf> in Document and not based on message name and its version (pacs.008.001.08). This causes a problem when a message based on a more recent version is r...

ITXA BulkEnvelopeDelete

When using the UI &/or BulkEnvelopeDelete to delete actual envelopes it also needs to cleanup the SPE_TRANSACTION_REGISTER table entries!!
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 7 Planned for future release

ITXA need BulkCodelistDelete & BulkMapDelete

There is no BulkCodelistDelete or BulkMapDelete option to clean up old version of codelist or maps. The one for Envelopes is great where you can delete all or old, as well as providing a list if you so choose.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Expected Ship Date on Transfer Order is pushed to Monday

We are facing issue related to Store to Store transfers. Transfer Order is created for a Pickup Order.It has expected Ship Date same as the Customer PICKUP date of actual Sales Order. This issue is replicable on Thurday and sat is allowed for tran...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 10 Not under consideration