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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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Support ICAP Virus scan for Forward Proxy connections

Sterling customers that receive data from partners benefit from ICAP streaming virus scan. However, most customers support both file transfer motions where SFG/B2Bi reach out to partners to move files as well. This reach out (listening producer) s...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Submitted

Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Add Extrainfo 1, 2 and 3 in ERN Red Light and Yellow Light Notifications.

Add Extrainfo 1, 2 and 3 in ERN Red Light and Yellow Light Notifications. Please include this detail in both Body of the email and the Attachment.
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 4 Functionality already exists

Allow for a “System Use Notification” on login page.

Currently, in the 6.3 version of Control Center under Properties and the Welcome Message, a system notification message can be added. It would be nice to be able to something similar with Sterling File Gateway/B2B Integrator.
13 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

ITX lacks full and proper support for X12 Real, specifically interchangeable support exponential real values.

We've run into instance where JSON data has large enough values that some converted over to exponential passed into ITX X12 based maps using the office X12 Type Trees provided by IBM/HCL the translation was successful. However, the output of 2.107...

Create APIs endpoint to the Analytics data sources

Lot of calculated fields exists in those data sources that we use today in our data tracking, Anlytics module is cumbersome and reachable by only people with MRO access, we would prefer to stick to the company standard for reporting which is Power...
13 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Enable Order Type Filter in dashboard and workspace of OrderHub

In OrderHub to show KPIs there are 2 options : dashboard workspace Both are not having filter for ordertype. There is an attribute present in order model (/Order/@OrderType) which should be enabled to define the filter. All KPIs should be based on...
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Accept Encrypted password in the SNODEID=(ID,passwd) for UNIX/Windows CD process

Hi Team, While sending files to mainframe where SPOE use is restricted, we have to provide password in plain text in SNODEID=(ID,passwd). This is a major security concern. Hence we want to know if enhancement can be made so that NDM can accept enc...
26 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Needs more information

Most effective KPIs based on business need

As of today, Order HUB’s Workspace allows for the creation of personalised dashboard workspaces and reports, based on the two KPIS of purchase orders and sales orders, that can only be consulted online and targeted up to 30 days before. The object...
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Functionality requested to produce the 824 to provide insight into content failures when there is no corresponding acknowledgement transaction to convey information.

Functionality requested to produce the 824 to provide insight into content failures when there is no corresponding acknowledgement transaction to convey information. This request has become more prevalent in the industry and is now being included ...
16 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review