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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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Increased character limit of Context Data

Currently, Context Data can only contain 10,281 characters. Some requirements and design require more information to be stored in Context Data. Alternate Solution is to store and retrieve from GenericData Configuration, but it complicates the acti...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

support Alma 8

support of Alma8 OS needed for AWS deployment
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

ITXA Not returning rejected TA1 Acknowledgement per 5010 Guidelines Due to Invalid Characters in ISA15

ITXA should be returning a Rejected TA1 acknowledgement due to Invalid Character is ISA15.

Decompress and read .tar files

Currently BPN tool is able to unzip and extract only .zip files. We have customers and trading partner ( for Ex : Electrolux) sending us .tar files. Requirements are to unzip the .tar files and extract the files within. This is not possible using ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

User disable option in Control Center Monitor

Dear Team, Greetings of the day!! Requesting to add the user disable feature so that when an user who has not logged in since last one month will be disable by the admin for security reasons. We have user update,edit,delete features in version 6.3...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Integrating Websphere Service Registry and Repository With Webspher Transformation Extender (WTX)

Integration WTX with WSRR functionality in wtx
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Include Sorting Option for All SST Tabs

Currently only a few V2 SST tabs have the sorting option such as customization and certificate. The configration and Server & Queue Configration don't have such sorting feature. Please enable the sorting feature for all tabs in SST. We have hu...
4 months ago in Self Service Tool 0

Insights into the failed messages on inflight Dashborad

Details of Ask •Able to gain insights into failed transactions, facilitating further categorization and grouping of failures by their error types to pinpoint unique errors. Example: Total Translation failures 100: i) Mandatory data missing: 50 (Ma...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 2 Future consideration

FileAgent - Windows .ser file cleartext

Have the Default_Config.ser or other .ser files clear text or similar.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration