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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 file uploads using myFileGateway

The myfile gateway file uploads happen one file at a time even though it allows us to select multiple files at the same time.
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Submitted

Default delimiters auto update during Outbound X12 ISA Envelope creation required - please review this requirement and let us know the possibility.

We need the CONFIG HUB to reflect the default delimiters automatically for outbound X12 ISA envelope creation. It saves the time for the Support/PER/Customer as the most of the Partners/Customers using the same set of delimiters.
24 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Needs more information

FSA(File System Adaptor) creating folders Automatically

Currently when extracting a files using File System Adaptor, by default FSA automatically creates the folder if it does not exists. There should be a parameter using which I can decide if I want FSA to create the folder automatically or not.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Implement an audit history to show updates that are made to rules, data uploads, etc.

Useful to see when updates are made to rules, who makes the updates, what the old settings were, and what the new settings are.
25 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Hold being applied during OrderCreate with Status as resolved

When an order is created it is sent through logic to determine fraud. The logic sets the fraud hold as either created (active) or resolved (inactive). Sterling is not looking at the status of the hold and putting the hold in a created(active) stat...
25 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Needs more information

Modifying dp-config-batch-import script

https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ000000pF0EQAU/dpconfigbatchimport?language=en_US
25 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Data Power 1 Needs more information

Container Deployments - Use one common prerequisite script

Having one script, that has the same name in each upgrade, that does all the prerequisite work will help cut back on deployment problems. This is especially important with SSP container upgrades. In the FixList.txt there are two scripts to delete ...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Give Integrated File Agent (IFA) the ability to point to a load balancer

Today IFA can only point to C:D on the same server. If it could use a load balancer, the workload could be distributed among multiple CD servers. It would also be nice to add HA support: if one IFA goes down, another one could pick up the work
26 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration