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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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Multiple Configuration Support for Integrated File Agent

I don't think Integrated File Agent currently supports or allows multiple File Agent configurations. Having this capability would support organization and separation of work. We currently use Integrated File Agent with our AWS ec2 instances. Havin...
about 9 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Call HSM for synchronous backups from Connect Direct

We would like to include in our Connect Direct process a call to HSM to make synchronous backup of important production dataset received or sended to be able to make a fast recover in case of corruption or data lost. We have tried to make calls to...
about 11 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
about 20 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Submitted

Customer is expecting a product feature to collect the must gathers rather running a script to collect

LFG has been using B2Bi product for their key business use-cases. Whenever a product issue / project issue occurs, the support team is asking to collect 4-5 different logs. This is tedious job as they have to run customized script to collect the r...

ITX Design Server and Launcher containers availability on IBM Container Registry (ICR)

ITX Design Server and Launcher containers to be available on IBM Container Registry (ICR). Currently only available through Docker
5 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Submitted

Support for DomToDoc to work correctly when used in service output message

You can currently use DomToDoc in the output message of a service Ex. <operation name="Replace Apostrophes"> <participant name="LW_SA_DKR"/> <output message="DocKeywordReplaceInputMessage"> <assign to="literal_mode">true<...
6 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Resynchronize Elastic data from Cassandra data for Archived orders

The successful archival of orders into Order Service results in their deletion from the OMS. In the event of a disaster or other unforeseen issue leading to Elastic data loss, the absence of these archived orders in OMS prevents their resynchroniz...
6 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Decouple Order Service Dependency on Cassandra

Currently, Order Service relies on Cassandra for index data before triggering a search in Elastic. This dependency on Cassandra for search operations in Order Service can cause service disruptions during a Cassandra outage. Additionally, the time ...
6 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Delayed Deletion of OMS Data on Archival of order into Order Service

As Order Service becomes the primary source of truth for orders, we have been evaluating disaster recovery strategies for Elastic and Cassandra services. One area of concern is potential data loss during OMS order archival into OS. Given Cassandra...
6 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

URL contains the session token which can be easily captured by an attacker

Control centre URL contains session token displayed in URL as a query string. Our security standard mandates that Applications should use an alternative mechanism for transmitting session tokens, such as HTTP cookies or hidden fields in forms that...
7 days ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted