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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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Node out of cluster - Process files gracefully automatically

Business will get benefitted and avoid impacting bank's reputation.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Needs more information

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 4 Needs more information

Hide UniqueID Token in GET parameter for MyFilegateway

Situation: Using MyFilegateaway the uniqueId token is passed as parameters in the URL in GET/POST Request Methods Example: https://mft-nala-val.roche.com/myfilegateway/MyFGUpload.do?uniqueId=-1ccob8032vnyn This value could be used accessing to Bro...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Needs more information

Please add 'Delete After Collection' functionality for mailbox protocol

The current implementation of the mailbox protocol lacks the ability to delete files after collection, which significantly limits its utility for our requirements. As we frequently need to remove source files post-collection, this omission renders...
7 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 2 Needs more information

Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Needs more information

ITX - Allow MapTrace to continue after first error

Currently, the MapTrace halts/stops after the first error is encountered. This makes debugging issues and correcting input data difficult, as only one error can be fixed at a time, then the file needs to be re-run to check if there are any other f...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 4 Needs more information

MapTrace should be written to memory

Currently, there is no equivalent to the SI Map Translation Report when ITX maps are handled. The MapTrace provides similar information in that it can be used to determine the cause for failure, however it is currently only possible to generated t...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 7 Needs more information

Provide availability and functionallity for Property Files from DB in order to use them in containers and On-Premise installations (essentially customer_overrides) description:

According to Support/Lab advice, we proceed to open the following RFE. The intention is to provide fully the use of properties from databases no matter if there is being used an on-premise or containers installation of the SBI. This functions were...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

Upgrade : Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.4 to Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.9

Please, we need your support to upgrade (with priority) from the current Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.4 to Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.9 due to vulnerabilities detected in Citibank environments, as we were informed by the partner that the requested versi...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

DateTime Functions should handle Epoch as well

We're receiving a message where the timestamps are in Epoch notation. ToDateTime and FromDateTime (and maybe other related functions) should be able to handle this so it can be treated and/or formatted in a human-readable format.
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Needs more information