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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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Enable Adhoc Email Link for file downloads without User Login Credentials

This is a business need with most enterprise's we have had conversation. While we have stressed on the aspect of Security concerns and its impact. The clients have strongly evinced interest for this capability as the dependency is high on IT and T...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Failed to authenticate with SFTP/FTPs, doesn't display any information of the source

Hi currently, we have a policy to lock an account after 3 failed connections on SFTP or FTPs protocol. In the communication session, it's possible to have the IP source when the authentication is successfull, but when the connection failed, the IP...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Functionality already exists

Password & Key based authentication for individual users using single SFTP Server Adapter

Password or key, Password and key, Password, Key based authentication functionality is required with respective users segregation. Assuming that the SFTP server adapter's authentication type is set to Password or Key, when a user with access to th...
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Need to have an override property file to prevent wipe of customized settings

With higher volume customers it is common to require customization to property files, especially engine.properties and Engine.log4j. However, with application of an iFix or FixPack (or upgrade), there is a risk that these settings will be lost. B2...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Provide the ability to create custom sponsor user types

Provide a way for a sponsor admin to define custom sponsor user types, beyond the current sponsor admin, LOB and standard users. For the various permissions, there should be a way to indicate what that role can do with each one (nothing, read only...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Not under consideration

Add support for AES-256 encryption algorithm for data at rest in Global Mailobx

B2Bi already supports AES-256 encryption for data at rest, so global mailbox should offer the same level of encryption.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Identification of Destination Filename at map level or rule level

Destination filename can be set at map level or rule level based on the client requirements. Recently we had a discussion about the client migration to SPE02 system where report need to be generated whether the destination filename for inbound map...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Escape Special Characters in URL for Get Request

HTTP rest client's such as Postman typically allow for special characters in the Get request, PEM HTTP requests do not.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Enhance REST service functionality to accept additional content types.

Vendors such as Adyen have the Content-Type as "application/json; charset=utf-8" rather than the standard application/json content type. The request is to enhance the OMS webservice functionality to accept content types that include the character ...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to start individual App Server

There are situation, very often, that requires us to restart API servers, Call center servers, specific agent, specific integ server. We do not have that ability in the OMoC. Like we can pull call center logs, but we cannot restart just call cente...
12 months ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration