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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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SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Automatic Proactive Notifications

Automatic Proactive Notifications – If we have failure to VANs, we require the functionality to email a notification. Also, to have this cover inbound data processing errors on data received from other VANs. What is the problem we are trying to so...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 4 Planned for future release

SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Bulk ID Migrations – competitor VANS have this functionality

Bulk ID Migrations What is the problem we are trying to solve? Not having to manually migrate one id at a time when there is a large migration as it can be very time consuming. What is the impact of how it is currently working? Migrate one id at a...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 3 Planned for future release

SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen.

Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen. The MBER will show expired mailbags - mailbags that haven't been acknowledged by another VAN within the time window. Van Admin then contacts the other VAN to confirm if they received and processed t...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 5 Needs more information

Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR)

Also See: RFI # 2776: Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR) | X12 Add a logic to Hipaa compliance check, such that diagnosis pointer used in SV107 in 837P PACDR, and SV311 in 837D PACDR, does NOT exceed the number of diag codes used in HI segment.
14 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Submitted

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Out of box utility script to run on Sterling nodes to fetch CD adapters certificates for validation to make sure change is reflected on all cluster nodes to avoid impact to customers traffic

We had a critical incident in our production system (Case TS018513193 Critical issue - All Banks are not able to connect B2Bi Sterling) because of renewed CD certificate was not reflected across all customer nodes of B2Bi.All Banks are not able to...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Container deployment or upgrade may not work in shared environments

There's been a few cases pointed out where the B2BI/SFG example container scripts for creating SCCs, Cluster Roles, Rolebindings, etc do not work in shared environments. This is interfering with deployments and upgrades in shared environments. In ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

FSA(File System Adaptor) creating folders Automatically

Currently when extracting a files using File System Adaptor, by default FSA automatically creates the folder if it does not exists. There should be a parameter using which I can decide if I want FSA to create the folder automatically or not.
17 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025