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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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Include ability to specify CD properties overrides in customer_overrides.properties file

Include ability to specify CD properties overrides in customer_overrides.properties file From https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_6.0.3/administering/administering/integrator/SI_PrpFile_Overriding_Props_Using_cust_overrides.html The...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Ability to Add, delete, Update Servers and Ability to Add, delete, Update Metadata Rules & Metadata Actions through API

We need ability to perform below configurations in Control Center through API interface - Add, update, delete a server to control center Add, update, delete a server group to control center Add, update, delete a Metadata Rule to control center Add...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume Field to be defined something like TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal (16,4) ... and not TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal(14,4) At the moment the TOTAL_VOLUME(14,4) does not accomodate over siz...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Italian E-invoicing: Time reporting between Inflight submitted date and reached SDI date

By law in Italy all EDI invoices need to be supplied to SDI within 12 calendar days. In order to find out if this is the case it is required to have data from Inflight to query. Currently the Event data when it is requesting SDI to approve or deny...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

DB2 HADR (ACR) support for ICC and underlying COGNOS

DB2 Clustering (HADR) is well accepted in the DB2 community. SFG has recently added support for the ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) functionality to take advantage of DB2 clusters perss this link:SFG_with_ACR SCC support for DB2 clusters is also ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Enable myFileGateway multi-factor authentication. Different fields be added for token and password

Enable different fields to be added in the Login's Page for myFilegateway. Ex: Username: Password: Token: We need to receive an extra field during login authentication on myFileGateway, as a random Token for example. Using pre-login Exit...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Allow Workflow to Continue After API has Failed

When creating an API dialog there should be an option to continue workflow even when the API fails. Preferably, it would have conditions to continue based upon what error is received.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Planned for future release

Add EDIID/Envelope Name & Map Name to 'Trading Relationships' avcivity report's 'Column options'

I have a report enhancement to request. HUSCO, Wabtec, Ball Corp and Pacific Cycle have all mentioned this to me in recent weeks. Backgound:Clients request custom reports from us at at times to pull an inventory of trading partners, envelope name...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Reports created in Cognos should be able to be scheudled and managed in SCC

The integration of Cognos has provided unending options for generating reports but anything created in Cognos is not visible to SCC for scheduling or management/modification through the GUI.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

File Agent: sort capability missing to guarantee files sequence

FA doesn't provide a mechanism to process the files located in a specific folder in a specific order (i.e. file sorted by timestamp, name, size ). There are scenarios where the sequence the Producer Application generates the files must be respecte...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration