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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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B2Bi application should automatically sync with the system time during DST change, without application re-start

Currently, we are re-cycling the B2B SI application in-order to sync the application time with system time during Daylight Savings (DST). Customer is not happy to bounce the application for time change during DST, re-cyling the application is impa...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

Hiding of unnecessary ROP/ROQ Methods

MRO provides a number of ROP/ROQ Methods that may not be applicable for a given client's environment. These methods are usually included by default in their drop-down list for selection by users. I'd like a method to either hide or remove methods ...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2

encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Extra Cols in Table on UI Dialog

Table on UI Dialogs can have a max of 10 columns. Sometimes more than 10 columns are required to collect data from sponsors/partners. Please extend the number of max columns a table can have.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

REST API Server Adapter

Allow Trading Partners to exchange file using REST APIs. If we can have REST adapter similar to SFTP adapter, Partners can use REST APIs to post/get/list etc files to their mailbox. Current REST APIs in B2Bi for administration, management and onbo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day.. We have a partner who usuaully sends arounf 500 transaction per day but there are some case it incrases upto 2000 per day during whihc we will get infra issues wrt cpu heavy utlization ,...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Planned for future release