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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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Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Restrict user access to Monitoring section

We have a monitoring team that should not have access to deployment or any section which will make any changes in the environment. Their job is to only monitor the environment. It would be helpful if we could restrict their access to Monitoring ta...
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

API to Monitoring download data without logging in

We would like to automate the monitoring process. It is very difficult to login to SST every time and navigate to Monitoring Menu, select all the option and see the very disappointing charts. It would be very useful if we could download the monito...
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Store more than 10 data fields

Often we have scenarios where SFG Solution uses external database tables. These tables can have any number of columns. When PEM activities are customized to collect data from sponsor/partner for the table and if the number of columns is more than ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Require MEIG to perform certificate matching on unique values

In a scenario where multiple CA certificates having the same value for the DN Subject parameter exist in the database, MEIG can retrieve the wrong CA certificate and cause a valid Trading Partner certificate to incorrectly be interpreted as invali...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

GET Function to be setup for API Inbound

We have a client named Zimmer BioMet whose business lays in Healthcare sector. They have alot of partner who trade EDI/NON-EDI messages via API Integration. B2BiSaas does provide API as a mode of communication but the requirement in specific to th...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Planned for future release

Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Monitoring SEAS/SSP certificates

For now, Control Center Monitor able to monitor the certificates in CD and ICC certificates. It will be useful if we can monitor the B2Bi SEAS and SSP certificates also.