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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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In Control center Queued Process view should be cleared automatically

In the Control Center, for a process or session to be moved from the “Queued Process” view to the “Completed Processes” view, there should be an end event for the process/session. In certain situations, the process may stay in the “Queued Processe...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Under review

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Needs more information

Password Vault support for outgoing Connect Direct for Windows transfers

There is a need to execute Connect Direct transfers securely as a User/Functional ID managed through Password Vault.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Future consideration

Extend the length of the work code field in MROIO

We require a 2 character extension on the Work Code field from 2 digits to a 4 digit field. This would allow us more characters to add a two digit year designation for material that we track under the Nonbooked inventory returned work code. This i...
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Provide QueueWatch Audit data

As part of our effort to more thoroughly track usage in SBI, we need to be able to audit QueueWatch usage. In IBM case TS013772150, we were informed that this functionality does not exist.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

B2BAC - Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options. As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud na...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

ICAP scanning required for files pulled and pushed by Sterling Integrator

Files that are pushed by external vendors are scanned via ICAP protocol in Sterling Secure Proxy. But the files that are pulled by Sterling Integrator are not scanned as they do not pass through SSP. This leaves a big gap in the scanning feature o...
10 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options. As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud native te...