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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...
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...

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ITXA - Compliance check Map response sequence mismatching after processing in ITXA

Currently the sequence of output cards after processing in ITXA is not matching with compliance map and it is generating randomly. when we verified with the ITX team and they have confirmed that it is generating in sequential order in the ITX env...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Add Columns to the User and Roles section.

I would like to be able to see the User Description when I am looking at the User and Roles section. In our shop, we use the User Description for enter the person's name. This can be much different when compared to their userid. Adding the User De...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

ITX - Expand SERIESTOTEXT function with a delimiter

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function just concatenates the content of an array which doesn't make it useable in my case. Adding an option for a delimiter like SERIESTOTEXT(Field(s), ",") would make a comma-separated string out of the array which wo...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists

Parallel Executions of a Shared Activity

In the case where a maintenance activity (ex. user account password reset) is shared to a partner account, we need the ability for multiple partner admins or users on that acccount to execute the same shared activity simultaneously. Currently, PEM...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Not under consideration

SAP Adapter Configuration: Add Retry Limit and Retry time interval option

Currently, we have the option of Retry limit and time interval for FTP and SFTP protocols. As SAP Adapter in SCBN has been recently introduced, the option of retry limit and time interval is missing from Inflight setup screen. We should have this ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

We are upgrading our IBMI servers to V7R5 and need connect:direct compatibilty.

We are currently on V7R4 and have been told that the recommended connect direct patch level is V3.8.0.3 with iFix 7. We need to know the compatible level for V7R5 (when available)
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

MQ connection pooling druing put sesions in WS MQ suite adapters in SBI

Prior to 5.2 6..3 (when were in 5.2 1) the MQ put sessions were using connection pool After the upgrade to 5.2.6;3 under the WS MQ suite service adapters - the MQ Put session connection are established & teared down on per message basis This c...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Is a defect

PEM-Notification email required before password expiration for PEM login

Currently PEM users are not receiving any email notifications before the password expiration . If we can setup an email notifications to be sent to users before password expiration.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Legacy Inflight to have search option based on User ID for protocols (FTP/SFTP/AS2ID/HTTP/OFTP2(SSID/SFID))

We have request from high volume customers like VF Services/Ceva etc requesting for change in the protocol relationship as the partner has moved to other service provider/change in the protocol url's or moving from one protocol to other like (FTP ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Need Access to PEM PR to delete the files in Library

We need to remove some of the files in the Library from PEM Partner Repository. We only have access to Upload and Refresh. However we don't have option to delete.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 4 Planned for future release