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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...
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...

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Add Business Alias field in inflight for a process(Process ID)

Existing Document search in BPN has a required field "Business Alias". So along with DateTime Range ; one has to put BA to track any document flowing into the system. One has to search business alias from existing customers business alias. Also if...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Server Inventory Report should contain all fields related to node

Server Inventory report does contain all the field. Need enhancement to reporting capability to include all fields in the report as this is required to gather details and automate the inventory validation.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 4 Planned for future release

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

Perform checkouts before actual upgrade

Please consider to move or duplicate some of the checks before actual upgrade action. For example - cfgcheck can be initiated before upgrade action, this will eliminate situation where e.g. error in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg causes rollback action a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Certified Container - db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached

db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached so the logs can be retained even after the auto deletion of db-setup pod. IBM asks for the logs but because the db-setup pod auto deleted so even the ephemeral logs also get deleted which are very imp...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists