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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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Provide Client Machine Certificate instead of User Certificate

When we download certificate from SST, it's is a User certificate. To install this certificate on user's machine, user need to install is manually one by one. We need steps on how to download client machine certificate, So that we can directly dep...
8 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

SI to capture trading partner’s SSL cert automatically

In SI, for HTTPS connections, the trading partner’s SSL certs are required to be checked into SI beforehand. And whenever their partner upgrades their certs, client will need to do manually update SI. Since client has many trading partners, this b...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Allow kerberos authentication for Sterling B2B Integrator to connect to it's database

Security policy in our organisation mandates that applications must use integrated / trusted authentication to connect to databases (rather than SQL authentication / username + password). I'm unable to find any IBM documentation regarding this for...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Provide an ACTIVE MAP report - need to see a report of top maps being utilized.

Helps us to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps usage.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Future consideration

Create a back out process for CD Windows patching

The current version of CD patching via CCD does not have a process to back out the patch incase of issues. The ask is to create a backout process and trigger it via CCD console if need be.
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

DB query tool in OMoC

Need to be able to view/query tables and columns in a robust way and in real time
8 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Decompress .zip files

We have a requirement where the partner application will send compressed(.zip) files. One zip file will contain multiple documents in it. The zip file should be decompressed and the individual files should be sent to the downstream application. An...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Update to existing OrderSummary and OrderArchive when an Index is Updated

Order Service is looked as the one-stop service for all customer orders (both active/history and archived orders). Business usually have new requirements in terms to providing additional search criteria's for lookup of orders based on internal and...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Exporting Filesystem Virtual root path in SFG

The reason why exporting the file system virtual roots in Sterling Fileway is beneficial is that we need to export the filesystem paths that are assigned to specific users whenever a CISO, audit, or security team requests verification or audit che...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Workflow tab set to “Awaiting my attention” as a default for all users as first priority. If not, for Read only users at least.

Currently when we select the Workflow tab, MRO IO application is set to show "My outstanding Workflows" by default Since many of our high end approvers are not regular users they are getting confused and require guidance on how to get into their l...
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration