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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...
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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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Sterling API Gateway Enablement: Enable Customer Company for ‘connections’ option through SCBN Hub

When a customer company name is given Config Hub access, only the self-service of Codelist and map gets enabled. To setup API Gateway configuration, the development team has to manually run an API to get the Connection parameter enabled in Config ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 3 Not under consideration

Update db_optimization_tool.sh to support Oracle and other DB Vendors

In the past IBM provided the db_optimization_tool.sh script with B2B Integrator to facilitate index reorgs with MySQL DBs. Several companies such as my own will only implement vendor scripts for index reorgs. Can IBM update that script and supply it.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ITXA - GET multiple codelist columns at once

In Sterling Integrator, we are currently able to pull multiple columns from a code list entry in one SELECT statement, as below: SELECT SenderCode, TEXT1, TEXT2 INTO VAR_SENDERCODE,VAR_TEXT1,VAR_TEXT2 FROM CODELIST WHERE NAME = "DSV_STD_EXCEED_RP_...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Future consideration

REST API Server Adapter

Allow Trading Partners to exchange file using REST APIs. If we can have REST adapter similar to SFTP adapter, Partners can use REST APIs to post/get/list etc files to their mailbox. Current REST APIs in B2Bi for administration, management and onbo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Compliance map not generating valid XML message on edi_log.xml

edi_log.xml generated output compliance maps are not valid XML for both EDIFACT and X12. They are missing closing tag for EDIFACT & root opening/closing tags for X12.
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0

Add Data Delay and Outage Notifications to InFlight application

Currently client notifications for Data Delays or Communication Outages are provided via a notification system that sends emails or voice messages to a configured distribution list for each account. It would be helpful if these notifications could...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Hold based rescheduling to update ETD/ETS for scheduled order lines

There is a need for an automated rescheduling feature in OM. Especially on B2B, the requested ship date tends to be important and may often change for order line via integration. In these cases the order line should be rescheduled automatically. C...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

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