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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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Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users.

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users and help to refer the shipment/order linked to transaction type of the inventory change. Example below In Inventory audit details screen in Order Hub UI the Reference...
2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Request to Implement FLAG-Based InFlight Data Filters

InFlight data filters rely on Sender, Receiver, and Doctype information to display documents to users. This system works well for successful documents. However, if a failure occurs before the metadata (Sender, Receiver, Doctype) is resolved, those...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen.

Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen. The MBER will show expired mailbags - mailbags that haven't been acknowledged by another VAN within the time window. Van Admin then contacts the other VAN to confirm if they received and processed t...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 6 Future consideration

Out of box utility script to run on Sterling nodes to fetch CD adapters certificates for validation to make sure change is reflected on all cluster nodes to avoid impact to customers traffic

We had a critical incident in our production system (Case TS018513193 Critical issue - All Banks are not able to connect B2Bi Sterling) because of renewed CD certificate was not reflected across all customer nodes of B2Bi.All Banks are not able to...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Provide a SWITCH or CASE function

Request to provide a long-missing function in ITX for SWITCH or CASE loop, where a set of evaluations would be considered in order with the first success would return a value and exit the loop. Example: = SWITCH ( UPPERCASE ( Value:Record ), "H" :...
14 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Submitted

Connect:Direct Helm chart support for topologySpreadConstraints

Need support in CD helm chart values.yaml for setting topologySpreadConstraints for the kubernetes PodTopologySpread plugin. This option would enable better distribute of multiple CD pods across availability zones in AWS EKS. I cannot use pod anti...
14 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Connectivity Protocol Filter On the Search for Documents landing page in Inflight

Having filter for Connectivity Protocol on Search for documents in Inflight for users to understand how many are under AS2/SFTP/Peppol
14 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Future consideration

Display Preprocessor Map Names in Inflight Event Details & allow searches

We have several flows that require executing a series of preprocessor maps before the data reaches the actual translation map. Since we don't track all steps in sequential order in INFLIGHT, we are requesting the engineering team to display the "P...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

SIP Compatibility with AWS OpenSearch

The SIP is currently compatible with Elasticsearch 7.17.9 and future fix packs. It leverages the Elasticsearch Java client version 7.17.28, which includes a built-in validation for the response header "X-Elastic-Product: Elasticsearch". This heade...
28 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration