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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...

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Connect:Direct Sudo Backup/Restore

We install C:D via cdinstall as a user account currently working with C:D for UNIX 4.2. This user account has sudo access to run etc/cdcust so we can perform configurations requiring root privilege. This is great for fresh install and ok for upgra...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Audit Log for File Agent

Please add an audit log to Connect Direct File Agent. Preferably, this audit log would track all changes made to a File Agent configuration. This would include all items on the File Agent tab to include watched directories, etc. It would also incl...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

Removal of Outer join query in WORKFLOW_CONTEXT Table

The below SQL query is one of the important one to get output from DB Statistics report. However, from what we can see, we are not sure why the 2nd join with WORKFLOW_CONTEXT (WC2) is needed (see the yellow-highlight in the attached screenshot). I...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Connect Direct UNIX: msgfile.cfg and idx

It doesn't make sense to me that the msgfile.cfg located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name> is a hard link to the one located in cdunix/ndm/cfg. Why not just have all of the cfg files located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name>? Obviously, you'd ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Not under consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Validate content of file uploads on dashboard

Sterling Integrator was flagged on recent PenTest due to the fact that it allows any type of file to be uploaded on dashboard, ie as bp primary document, maps, xslts, etc. Case TS016869403 confirmed that currently only mailboxes can restrict file ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Enable MyFG UI customizations when deployed to an Adapter Container POD

When deploying B2BI in Certified Containers, it has an out of the box instance of MyFileGateway 2.0 running on the ASI pods. However we want to run the MyFG on the AC pods, so we created a custom HTTP server adapter to run on "All adapter containe...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration