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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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Improve debug capabilities on failed maps

When a map is deployed and fails translation, it is very difficult to find out the reason of the failure. A clear report on what has been the failure, as the Translation service of SterlingB2B Integrator, that includes type or error, iteration cou...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

Let Control Center have the ability to monitor critical database system events on a monitored SI server

Today, if a B2BI node looses its connection to the database server, it sends out an email. I would like Control Center to have the ability to detect if that event has occurred and send out an alert.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

CD Unix- CODEPAGE with "iconv -c" or substitution char

When CODEPAGE parameter is used for a transfer, iconv api is used internally by CD to codepage traduction in CDUnix-Linux and CDzOS (CDWindows doesn't use iconv, it's using Microsfot's API mlang.dll). When in the content of the source file there i...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 8 Functionality already exists

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Certified Container - db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached

db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached so the logs can be retained even after the auto deletion of db-setup pod. IBM asks for the logs but because the db-setup pod auto deleted so even the ephemeral logs also get deleted which are very imp...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists

Automating CI/CD build/deployment pipeline starting with the development environment

We were working on a build/deployment pipeline for the IBM Sterling Order Management System (OMS) and there seemed to be too many manual steps in this process going from development to QA to PROD. We were hoping to get a more automated build/deplo...
over 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Protect SFG for event flood caused by large volume GET requests of very small fiels

When the File Gateway is hit by a very high amount of GET requests to download small files will cause an event flood. As these events are tracked in the visibility db, this may cause the system to "hang" - all threads blocked - as the visibility d...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

Ability to create single relationship setup which can handle multiple folders for FTP/SFTP

Business scenario : Currently our system configuration allows only one FTP/SFTP folder to be pointed under single Sterling Commerce Inflight relationship. Sometimes we get request from client for 1xFTP/SFTP setup but route different file type to r...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

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...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Status "Wait Queue" on SMF record

Add the Wait Queue" statuses (WC, WP, WT, and WX) in the SMF records.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Develop generic XSL to convert XML to JSON for new XML validation Service

Develop a XSL to convert XML to Json convertion and deploy in XML validation service. This will help us to remove indivdiual ITX maps for those convertions.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration