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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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Revive Health Check Utility for Sterling Integrator

We had been widely using the Health Check Utility to examine the health and performance of the application on a weekly basis. After the utility was removed from recent versions, we are having difficulty validating the application on a routine basi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

enable file transfer using smb protocol

In the current state, we will need to mount the samba file shares on the Sterling B2B Integrator hosted servers to be able to access the servers. It would be good to access the files using smb protocol without the need to mount the file shares.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Not under consideration

Please create a work queue under 9 "QR" for "Quote Review"

As the Inventory get a quote we can add it to the work queue QR, It will enabale plant to prioritise their Plant reviews for quotes.
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Include a field on each material to display the highest Business Impact and Moving Code value from any other plant in the business. MAke the field visible in grid view and reports.

When managing inventory at large multi site site operations - this will allow the materials to be consilidated at a central hub. The highest moving, or highest criticality site could be the holding location for any given material, allowing the inv...
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters Stanza of Initparm.cfg file. Here is problem Statement : We were able to send the file to DELL ECS S3 Bucket from linux node, for this one we have updated the initparm.cfg file, We hav...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

HTTP Proxy enablement on B2B Mail client Adapter

With the addition of OAuth2.0 authentication on Sterling B2B Mail client Adapter all connections to the Microsoft exchange server will now happen on Micro Soft cloud, which means that connection earlier would stay within the company's network, but...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

automapper should also work with same input/output types

It is a common pattern to work twice on a output card, e.g.:- when the output should also include summarized amounts of several output records that need to be built/calculated first- when the header should announce how many records will follow Now...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Autmoapper from output to output

The automapper is very useful, but only does input to output. In some cases, we need to prepare mapping in one output card, and enrich it later in a following output card. Currently, it can be done but needs some cards copy and moving, and this wo...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

enhanced PARSE function

In order to use the new PARSE function as a replacement for the old RUN(submap) constructs, the PARSE function should have similar behavior as RUN(submap). This essentially requires 2 enhancements: 1.) We need to pass arguments to PARSE like "-F21...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

Check box to enable or disable rules by selecting multiple rules at a time

Implementer needs to go to each and every rule to either enable or disable them during testing or production move, by adding this new feature in BPN tool, we can select the similar kind of rules (by rule set, rule names,....) which allows us to se...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration