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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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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.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Supporting AUTH TLS for FTPS Port 21

Enable AUTH TLS on FTPS Transfer. Current version of SI 6.1.2 doesn't support AUTH TLS. This was a request from an external vendor to enable AUTH TLS for secured transfer.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Reprint of Pick list on Store engagement (angular) UI

One a pick list is printed using Store engagement UI there is no option for reprinting the pick list. Some time pickers misplace/loss the pick list in that case they need to reprint the pick list.
about 6 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 2 Planned for future release

XML to EDI outbound data does not inlcude reference to ST envelope within InFlight

Whether source format is FLAT file or XML file, we should always display ST envelope details in inflight (if we can find a match during enveloping service). In a nXML_TO_EDI flow, XML flow uses typing service where a typing map is executed (instea...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Support generic S3-compatible object store for document storage

On the Sterling roadmap is support for backing the B2Bi container document store with cloud object storage. Our company has on-site S3-compatible object storage (via Dell EMC ECS) - please ensure the S3 support includes S3-compatible setups and no...

Container enhancement - Set group to 0

Currently the PEM container expects to be run as pemuser:pemgroup (1011:1011). The files and directories inside the image are owned by 1011:1011. When running on OpenShift, a random user id is used to run the container. This user is not able to ex...

Helm chart enhancement - Resources volume

Currently the PEM helm chart only supports one way to supply the DB driver jar to the application: 1. Statically provisioned PV bound to the PVC created by the helm chart A related application, B2Bi, has a helm chart that provides additional optio...

Sending email updates to stakeholders on env activity

When a deployment or a CDT is carried out on any env in OMoC, the stakeholders of the env needs to be informed by manually sending an email about the activity performed. This process needs to be automated. An email needs to be triggered to the env...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

Need to Check changes done to Schedule of business process

Schedule of the business process is getting disabled , so need to know how can we check time when the process was disabled and if any ID.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration