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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...
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...

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Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

ITXA - improve the EDI X12 27x transaction

To Support EDI 27x transactions and follow X12 HIPAA Guidelines. My company Prolifics Inc is working with the client who is BlueShield of California (Health Insurance provider). We are working in a project where we have to deal with the EDI 27x (2...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ConfigHub -- provision to update codelist in ConfigHub portal

Currently, the only available option to modify codelist is to download the corresponding codelist as CSV file, add new codelist entries or modify entries to the CSV file, and then upload the updated CSV file into confighub with a new version. It...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Provision to update code-list in ConfigHub

Currently, the only available option for codelist update from Confighub is to download it as a CSV file, add new codelist entries to the CSV file, and then upload the updated CSV file into ConfigHub with a new version. It would be beneficial to ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Add Data Delay and Outage Notifications to InFlight application

Currently client notifications for Data Delays or Communication Outages are provided via a notification system that sends emails or voice messages to a configured distribution list for each account. It would be helpful if these notifications could...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

AES-256 encryption for .bin file creation

we understand that when a .bin file is created via lcu.jar it is encrypted with AES-128. We would like to see this encryption increased to AES-256 to satisfy our Security requirements.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Ad Hoc Report Functionality

In version 6.1.3 and earlier when a report is run, the user has the option to keep/download in different versions such as pdf, xls, csv, etc and to email the report. However, in version 6.2, this ad hoc functionality has been removed. While an ad ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Wild Card Searches in Call Center

In the Call Center UI, we'd like to be able to complete wild card searches for many or all of the fields. For example, if I wanted to search for all orders that are from an IBM email address I could search *IBM.com. This would bring up all orders ...
6 months ago in OMS - Call Center 6 Functionality already exists

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration