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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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ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

FTP/SFTP File and Folder permissions

File and Folder permissions for FTP and SFTP appear to be at the server-level, forcing NTFS security. This isn't necessarily negative, however if we change these permissions, we risk breaking other processes on the server when we only want to allo...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Moving cursor between IBM table cells using keyboard arrows

While using IBM buc tables, we want the user the navigate the cursor between table cells (having input field) of different rows using the keyboard arrows.
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

MyFileGateway LDAP Support

Currently we have multiple MyFileGateway users that we create, delete and update on a regular basis when new customers join the organisation. The accounts that access MyFileGateway are manually created and there is a large operational overhead on ...
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

DCB Information is missing in the parameters passed through the Process Data for CDSA Runtask

We have a requirement for additional parameters to be passed to the B2B Integrator CDSA through the Runtask exit to the Runtask Business Process script. Previously, parameters have been added to the data passed from the inbound Connect:Direct sess...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Add Solace to the list of supported vendors for JMS 1.1

Right now Solace is not listed under the supported vendors and configurations for JMS 1.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=adapters-supported-vendors-configurations-jms-11

Add support for FASP in Sterling B2B Integrator

support for FASP protocol require in Sterling B2B Integrator
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Future consideration

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration