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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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Increase the field size of the MapList to add new typing map names

Currently there is a field size limitation to the field "MapList" and due to this we are unable to add new typing maps to the existing list. Please increase the size of this field to add new typing maps.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Reset reused workfiles for maps in the Launcher

Reusing workfiles makes map faster as it speeds up the alidation process. However, changes in data mean special care has to be taken to avoid issues for the concerned maps. Currently, one has to manually remove the workfiles after the Launcher was...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Reset Launcher "Black list" for failed messages

Whenever a message triggers a map failure, even if the failure is not related to the message's content, the message is blacklisted by the launcher and will not be trigered again. This avoids "poison messages" but needs a restart to have the messag...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

Segregate PR and PP JMS properties instead of overloading them into one and forcing 2 copies of MountFiles

If embedded JMS is used, the Partner Repository and Partner Provisioner use different values in the same property "enable_jms_features" in Setup.cfg file. This makes it imperative to create two distinct copies of the entire MountFiles directory to...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Increase Session Inactive Timeout For Admin Users

Increase Session Inactive Timeout For Admin Users from 20 minutes to 120 minutes.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 2 Not under consideration

Support updates for Alias Netmap.

Per IBM Presently Control Center cannot directly update the Alias. We need this to be able to support full netmap updates.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add xlsx as report format

Microsoft is phasing out the use of xls formatted files. You have to manually open and save each file to convert to xlsx.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add CRL caching support to Connect:Direct z/OS v6.1

We have started to use CRL checking in CDZ via EASERVER and urgently need CRL caching to be in effect similar to what has been implemented for Windows/Linux platforms.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Processing Cost configuration to track fixed fees

Add an additional configurable attribute for the Processing Cost model to track a fixed cost for the first item picked from a given node. This cost would be added to the existing variable processing cost (determined by item count) available today....
over 5 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration