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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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RHEL8/RH8 Support for Sterling B2B Integrator

End of Support With the "End of Support" notification for SI 5.2.6 recently announced, preparation to upgrade to SI 6.0.0 is essential. SI 6.0.0.1 currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installi...

Option to enter order and line level attributes during create order in Order Hub

Order hub allows certain order and line level attributes to be entered while creating order. Mattel has requirement of additional attributes to be entered from UI while creating B2B orders which are currently not available in the UI. They are as f...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Delivered

IV Supply Sync Visibility

Need an acknowledgement process for Supply Sync in IV that will summarize saying they received “x” number of updates, processed “x” number, and the supply for “x” number of items did not change. IBM informed this requirement is on the product road...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

FTP Client Begin Service to support _ENCRYPTED password

Custom protocols in FileGateway can include _ENCRYPTED as an option on password definition. However, the FTP Client Begin Service does not support passwords which are encrypted by this method
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Delivered

TX Email Adapter support for SMTP authentication.

The email adapter needs to support the authentication features of Enhanced SMTP. My shop switched to use of ESMTP nearly 3 years ago. I have to have my TX servers whitelisted by my IT Security department on our internal email server because all em...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Delivered

Add option to delete custom fields or reset objects

Sometimes there is a need to remove some custom fields from the object views. Currently if a custom field gets added to an object, even by mistake, there is no way to delete that field until and unless all objects are deleted. This is a very inef...
over 4 years ago in Supply Chain Insights / Operations Center 0 Delivered

Increase concurrency in activity processing

We found out that PEM may have concurrency limit of 10 concurrent users/activity being handle in parallel. would like to have product increase that to handle higher volume implementations
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Delivered

NCPDP Compliance Check Enhancement

Enhance the NCPDP compliance checker to provide situational compliance checking for the entire transaction. Some examples are: We would expect a transaction to fail compliance when the Compound segment (AM10) is sent and field 436-E1 in the Claim ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Delivered

High Availability for Connect:Direct File Agent when running behind a load balancer

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Delivered

B2Bi using Document Object Model (DOM) for XMLDsig requires a lot of RAM to handle payloads

Customer having a problem with XMLDsig where B2Bi is using Document Object Model DOM to handle XML payload by design. The issue is that it requires 2GB RAM to handle 130 MB payload. This is just for one file. The reason is that B2Bi processes in m...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Delivered