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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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File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Request for Product Enhancement – Demand Date Update Without Unscheduling Orders

Dear team, I am writing to formally request a product enhancement based on our recent experience with PMR TS018501738, which exposed a limitation in the way Sterling OMS handles updates to demand dates when the order delivery date changes. Context...
28 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All...
28 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

allow configurable rows in settings of Integrated File Agent (browser)

settings of Integrated File Agent cdws-ui/setting/fileAgent/viewDirectories rules per page & directories per page setting is 10 by default. Can these BOTH be made configurable so it doesn't reset to 10 each time the page is revisited\reloaded
28 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Choose different colors for different environments

In Integration it is possible to choose different colors for different environments, we would like this possiblity also in the B2B product so we don't accidently make changes in wrong environment.
4 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Planned for future release

OOB feature to deactivate an Enterprise/Node as a seller from UI without the need to delete organization configuration

Currently there is no feature available OOB like a check box to enable or disable an enterprise which is a seller or a node which is a seller. Hence it keeps on showing up on the dropdown on UI related to organization. The requirement is to deacti...
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists

Proposal for SAML 2.0 Support in IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM) to Enable Federated Authentication

As part of our enterprise security standards, all public-facing components must support federated authentication using SAML 2.0 with an enterprise Identity Provider (IdP). Currently, IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM) does not officially support...
28 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Submitted