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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...
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...

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Remove the validation of the X520SerialNumber in the PKI-J toolkit

An error occurred when updating a certificate for a client with a Serial number too long issue. Certicom found that certificate is not valid and cannot be used since the X520SerialNumber contains more than 64 characters which violates the RFC.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Popup on Partner "Start task" when Campaign Waiting on Sponsor Action

It is not clear to partner's when a campaign is waiting for Sponsor's to complete approvals/tasks. Currently, the partner is able to click the "Start task" button, but nothing happens. The icon at the top of the screen is small and not obvious to ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Add Audit Log Capabilities to File Agent

For Stand alone and Integrated File Agent, some kind of auditing feature needs to be added. Currently messages are created showing that the configuration has been updated, but what in the configuration was updated? This is what shops need to know.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 4 Future consideration

1 click to set to Override rules and set to Optimal

Ideally we want the decision status to be Optimal so when I see the potential OOB ROP and OOB Max as 0/0 and the status hold zero I will 'Overide' rules, then change SAP ROP and SAP Max to 0. I think it would be very useful and time saving to have...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists

Limit the version number for resources

There should be a way/property to limit the number of versions for B2B Integrator artifacts like Business Process, XSLT, Maps, Code Lists. Currently we can have as many versions as created for each of these artifacts and need to manually clean up ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

TO should get scheduled on product Available date rather than moving it into further date while performing backward date calculation on ETS based on ETD for optimal solution

Currently as per design When the TO is created on Tuesday, and the transit time identified based on the carrier service is 2 days, then the ETS is on Tuesday and the ETD is on Thursday (considering the working hours). Similarly, when the TO is cre...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Control Center does not support the Secure connection with the SMTP server

I installed control center and I can't send email to my user reset the password. My relay only uses TLS protocol.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Add a feature to pass the failed response from PP to PEM.

Hi, Currently, in PEM under the tab "Wait for Provisioning" when the control passes from PEM to PP to provision the resources in respective environments then in the PEM side we see a triangle draft kind of sign stating that the PP is working to cr...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Support for MQ version 9.2, currently supports upto v9.1.0.7

Our Implementation uses Global Mailbox and the current version of B2Bi (6.1.0.3, 6.1.1) supports maximum MQ version 9.1.0.7. Our Security and MQ team have identified a security vulnerability with version 9.1.x.x which is remediated with version 9....
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Is a defect

prioritizing routing of files, File A routing needs to take precedence over File B. Routing channel template is complex and burdensome. provided by Matt Moder

File ABC and File XYZ both hit their respective mailboxes in SFG at the same time or close to it. Both files use the same routing rule/ template (and associated business processes) File XYZ routing needs to take precedence over File ABC Once File ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Future consideration