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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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Integrate internal source control to standard source control tools (e.g. git) or artifact repositories (e.g. artifactory)

Secure management of code and config for large enterprises is pushing heavily towards standard repositories. These are increasingly used not only to assist developers, but also as points of governance and auditabiltiy. Sterling's internal source ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Fix a bug which IBM support is not accepting as a bug

Problem: Any CD Windows v6 client or Requestor is impacted. When a lower case process name job is submitted, via the v6 client or requestor, the process name is automatically converted to uppercase and the job is submitted. While the same process ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add GCM Encryption Algorithm

Currently while configuring the AS2 profile for partners, the only encryption algorithms allowed are DES, RC2 and AES. We need the GCM ciphers also to be made available on the dropdown for "Encryption Algorithm"
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Status to be returned when performing an automatic silent install

When performing an automated silent install/upgrade from the Windows command prompt, instead of the command dropping straight back to the command prompt, certain messages would be returned and at the end of the install/upgrade a return code/status...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Adapter Containers: Allow container-specific JVM arguments

Right now, if you want to add custom JVM arguments to adapter containers (say for JVM monitoring), this is done via the Performance Tuning wizard. The wizard provides only one field for custom JVM arguments, which are then applied to all adapter c...
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Connect:Direct Client Identification by the Connect:Direct Server

Connect:Direct, although a peer to peer MFT tool, uses a client - server model as it's underlying architecture. With a client submitting a job to the C:D server, we cannot identify the client server with the current state of affairs if the C:D ser...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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to add High Water Mark for max API session to be reported into the statistics
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Be able to dynamically pass parameters into Stored Procedure on Output side with ODBC map

Currently the Gentran:Server for Windows 5.3.1 integration application has limitation. It has no capability to dynamically pass in parameters into stored procedure to be used on output side for Inbound map.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Process Control - UI - option to have comment area & activate/deactivate option

Two parts:a. Process Control UI does not have ability for comment field for Session records. 25-30 characters per line.b. The ability to toggle a line/command as Active or Inactive.At present, you have to delete the line and re-add. It would defau...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Extended Rule - GOTO and Call Features

Hello, Gentran Server for Windows is great, but we need a few new tools for the extended rules. 1- We need a GOTO statement. 2- We need to be able to call a saved rule from within an extended rule. Sure, we can copy paste the same code in each map...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration