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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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Stand Alone File Agent - Do Path Match

Reference TS011100108. It is my understanding that enhancements have been done with Integrated File Agent, but the same enhancements have not been made to stand alone File Agent. One such enhancement, is to do path matching. With stand alone File ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Easy Routing XML documents based on contain of the file without map

2)Easy Routing XML documents based on contains of the file without map Xml routing can hapeen based contains of the file without map. The product should parse the entire xml and store in DOM. Based on xpath value we can route the documents. ex- ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Allow users to reload documents with a status "available" that have not been picked up in more than 24 hours.

This will provide users the ability to pick up documents that have exhausted the number retries allowed. Today, the only way to fix is by opening a ticket with support to mark the documents as "picked up" so that the user can then reload them to t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

Enable runtime duplicate envelope check in Config Center

As part of new partner onboardings for all SCBN customers, Implementation team will create envelopes with client and partner EDI ID's on config center and there is always risk of creating duplicate envelopes because of incorrect information from c...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Supervisor Approval flow missing in Store engagement

At Costco, we have a usecase to support Supervisor approval workflow to override price in case the current user doesn't have relevant permissions. This feature is missing in Store engagement per current documention
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Not under consideration

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Add an API to add/remove/change Users in the access control list

Clients would like the ability to manage a user Group with their own tools (for audit purposes). If they could use an API to modify the MROIO user list, then they could manage the list on their side.
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Support SM2 Public Key Algorithm

SM2 is a four-part standard for public key algorithms specified by China. This enhancement is to support the file encryption and decryption by SM2 and perform file exchange with China.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration