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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...
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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Enable JMS Service to be configured under Adapter Container (AC) in addition to ASI

Our environment mostly (around 80%) consists of JMS services (queues) and we want to segregate that from our ASI, sometimes we have to reboot the entire Application (SBI) if the queues does not move. We are planning to move JMS Services to Adapter...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

External Purge Memory settings are inconsistent between Windows and Linux/Unix and changing the memory settings is complicated

It is very confusing that Xmx for Ext Purge on Windows defaults to 512m no matter what the Noapp is tuned for. However on linux/Unix the -Xmx for External Purge is pulled from whatever the Noapp is set for. This is very inconsistent and can cause ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

BULK Attachment option to add in BULK Edit

At Present, while creating a bulk workflow -- we need to go into each item to add an attachment (e.g. if create a Bulk workflow of 100 materials, then we need to go into each material 100 times to add an attachment to have a future reference) It ...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release

How to pass SACCT and PACCT details to remote CD Node using CDServer CopyTo Service in sterling integrator?

We have a requirement to PASS the SACCT and PACCT details to remote CD node from sterling integrator. We do not find any relavent fields in the CopyTo service in sterling integrtor to handle these values. Can you please provide the tags we need to...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

CDWindows Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Official CDWindows product support for the Microsoft Windows 2025 OS , for future/standard lifecycle management purposes and continued OS supportability.
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files to Daimler customer via T system because there is an issue with T-system due to missing header information. This has been showstopper for our VAN migration project and le...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Under review

Export all the results in one csv file, even if results are in multiple pages - IBM SQL DB Query Client

One request for enhancing the db query client. Even if results show up in pagination. Can you enable a feature where I can export all the results in one csv file. Like for e.g. if query results in more than 10K records, need a feature to export al...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

Support Multiple CA certificates in HTTP client adapters

We have partners that are starting to deploy systems in multiple geographic zones in an active/active configuration. Each zone is presenting its own SSL certificate. For smooth processing, it would be ideal if a list of certificates could be provi...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted