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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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Inflight - change search behavior for doctype

Currently searching for doctype that does not appear in history returns everything as if no filter is applied. However searching for sender or receiver ID that does not appear in history returns "no records found" - for consistency I feel that doc...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Change length of time before documents are archived or inlcude more details in archived data

Current, data is archived after just a month, we have a need to view the data fully for longer as our standard customer terms for invoicing is 90 days
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Single Sign On for IBM Control Center using IBM Sterling Secure Proxy

Implementation of Single Sign On for IBM Control Center using IBM Sterling Secure Proxy, similar to myfilegateway for Sterling File Gateway for external trading partners : In a IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Global Implementation, for a external t...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Support External Authentication of PEM users (Sponsor and Partner users)

No description provided
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Planned for future release

MAC Algorithm Updates

We have a vendor that is requiring that we use "hmac-sha2-512" for our SFTP connection to them. I don't see that as an option per the documentation:The MAC the client prefers to use for stream encryption. Required. Valid values are:hmac-sha1hmac-m...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

Provide control over who can use the SNODEID parameter

This idea was previously raised for CDz CONDIRECTZ-I-8, however, it was informed by CDz L3 that the enhancement in CDz will not be able to work on remote Distributed CD nodes. Therefore, this request is raised for similar function on distributed p...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

IBM Control Center Email Alert Formating

Email alerts, from Control Centre are in plain text format. Can the alert email format be using for example XLST and HTML to mark critical warning and success with appropriate coloring? Can we have for separate, for each alert, its own configurati...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Bulk download of orders and orderlines from Optimizer Explainer

The current Optimizer Explainer does not a have an option to export the orders, order lines and node details to be exported to an external template for further review and analysis, the limitations lead to the following challenges. Difficulty in id...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Planned for future release

Enable specifying account permissions on download orders for each user

There is no option for us to add accounts for a B2C file which we can do at the moment in Axway. For our current set up we give permissions to users by account numbers so they can only retrieve statements containing that account
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Increase RECSIZE to a higher value for version 3.6.02

The data is not able to be transferred for certain transmissions due to record size not large enough. We are requesting to increase the RECSIZE (RUSIZE)value from 8989 to B9B9 so that our LOB customers can transfer files without a size issue.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 3 Planned for future release