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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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Add support for topologySpreadConstraints to helm chart for SSP engine container.

Need to be able to set the topologySpreadConstraints for the kubernetes PodTopologySpread plugin in the SSP engine helm chart. This option would enable better distribute of multiple SSP engines across availability zones in AWS EKS. I can use pod a...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Remove true or false in extended field and partner group

Hi, in the extended fields there is partner group who is not consistent. When you not choose a field then it's empty, but if you choose and regret it you have to fill in true or false..
about 2 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Increase VALUE column length from 100 characters to 255 in ACT_NON_XFER table.

The reports regarding table ACT_NON_XFER in the Sterling Integrator Database, show incomplete information. The VALUE column is capped at 100 characters, resulting in incomplete visualization of values such as mailboxes. We are suggesting to change...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Putaway destination location screen to show location/quantity view

While doing putaway and selecting destination location where item should be put away to, a view showing the current locations where this item is already present in store would be useful on this screen. Along with the location, quantity available a...
3 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Future consideration

add more logging for MAX session /statistics

Better monitoring, prevent issues when MAX sessions are reached.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Add a status field on Inflight under Business Field1 to find out only the status of "Finish" documents

Many Support Users from GSK are asking if there is a way find Finish documents from Inflight from search criteria instead of looking into events. This feature will also be useful if there was a planned outage at partner of customer side to hold do...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

SFTP Client GET Service - input parameter to set a max number of files processed

We are using the operation SFTPClientGet and the parameter RemoteFilePattern to do a multiple get. See the below example. We would like to have an input parameter allowing us to set a maximum number of files processed during one sftp get opera...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Ability to get alerts for errors

Currently there is no way to get an alert when a transaction ends up In Error.
about 2 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0