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SFTP Protocol Strict Host Key = 0

Whirlpool is requesting IBM SCBN be able to configure their SFTP connection without strict host key requirement. This is part of their High Availability Architecture plan. All of their vendors except IBM is able to meet this requirement.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Can we have a report generated every month, which should show how many times the system was down and report the timings?

Can we have a report generated every month, which should show how many times the system was down and report the timings? Say, there was an unwanted outage due to some issue, the report should show the timings and duration of the outage.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Dual client install ability to access each environments directories

When the client is used as a dual client install (the one client machine can access both production and test installations of GSW) the ability to access each clients directory (Options > Preferences > Directories) would be beneficial for dev...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Enable client certificate authentication configuration in Inflight for HTTPs Setup

HTTPs allows both Basic Authentication and Client certificate authentication.Inability of setting up client certificate authentication in SCBN for HTTPs is upsetting the client who prefers to have one connection setup against multiple , potentiall...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 4 Not under consideration

AS2 Error: BPN_EDIINTBuild - Cannot find a class that corresponds to Oid 2.5.4.97; please see oid.map for details

IBM customers and partners widely use AS2 communication protocol and some of the customers/partners have the SSL/Signing/Encryption certificate with Oid parameters which our current SCBN doesn't support due to which it becomes very difficult to co...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Not under consideration

Automatic option for connectivity test with Trading partners.

Currently in order to do any connectivity testing with trading partners we have to do series of tasks on SCBN. Current Activities/ Challenges which we have: 1. We need to create InFlight FTP relationships. 2. We need to configure BPN send/receiv...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Functionality already exists

Don't automatcally load codes into fields when creating a new map.

When a new map is created, the fields that have codes associated with them automatically load as a standard rule. Although they're loaded, they don't do anything unless you set them but the field is still marked that there's a rule set on it. If t...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Ability to signal a translation error if the max number of loops is reached in a map.

You can indicate the maximum number of loops in a map, but have no way to trigger a translation error if that limit is reached. Currently if the translator hits the maximum number of loops, it does not signal an error but continues on with documen...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Sanity check on number of overall segments or size of resulting document during an import translation

Mapping errors can cause extremely large documents to be created. Currently there is no way to limit this. It should be possible to set a maximum number of segments for a document or on its resulting size and signal a translation error if that thr...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

FTP mailbox is not holding FileName as collected from MGET/GET to be used or reviewed in the mclient mailbox manager display

Files are successfully pulled from an FTP server. The filename is not captured and thus the column/field is blank when displayed and passed to recipient mailboxes.Customer wants to use the filename for routing and declaration of what is inside the...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Not under consideration