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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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Restarting a flow where we want a subset that originally tracked red to re-process while ignoring others that originally tracked green.

SCBN Customers send batch outbound files for multiple Partners and some times due to Tranlsation, Configuration or System Outages some of the transactions impacted and failed in the batch and once the issue resolved and we or Customer want to rest...
23 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

ITXA - GET multiple codelist columns at once

In Sterling Integrator, we are currently able to pull multiple columns from a code list entry in one SELECT statement, as below: SELECT SenderCode, TEXT1, TEXT2 INTO VAR_SENDERCODE,VAR_TEXT1,VAR_TEXT2 FROM CODELIST WHERE NAME = "DSV_STD_EXCEED_RP_...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Under review

Indicate Perimeter Servers which do not have a Service Adapter using it

In Troubleshooter, SI shows the current status of Perimeter Servers. This is the location where users are able to disable/enable the PS. On this same screen, it could also show a count of how many service adapters are using each perimeter server.e...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Management of OFTP2 Certificates = Time Consuming with SBI

On SBI, OFTP2 management is time consomming.
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Password policy enforcement - minimum change password timeframe

To deny automated user's password change, add an additional parameter in password policy indicating the minimum number of days between a password is changed and the next time it can be changed.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Restarting a Carbon Copy Branch in InFlight

We work on a lot of Business scenarios for the SCBN Customers where the main document is carbon copied and sent for parallel processing. In this case, we would see a separate entry for the main branch and separate entries for the Carbon Copied bra...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Automation of certificate replacement in SSP and SI

As we are replacing SSL certificates more often and validity lengths are shortening we will have to do more certification replacements. I would like a way to automate the certificate replacement within SI and SSP. I would need an automated or scri...
25 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Need an ability to bulk extract the IV configuration (Item + Node Fulfillments Status)

We use this interface for masking capability . We have many item+ Ship node combinations which we disable . We need this extract for reconciliation purpose , to validate whether the item fulfillment has been disabled for all those combinations , s...
25 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted