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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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In Inflight - Trading Relationships Report having the Orphan records or duplicate of each correct record

In Inflight - Trading Relationships Report Incorrectly Showing Unknown instead of correct values
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

trade up process is too complex and cumbersome

seller contacts project office to explore usage or tries to use parts in SQO routing them to project office via checkfile configuration 2. Project office distributes trade-up spreadsheet seeking input on existing entitlement, S&S LPP, and inte...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Needs more information

collect ebics client messages from B2BI as a standard protocol

Today only Ebics server messages are collected by ICC. for EBICs client, nothing gets to ICC, and therefore ICC is not supervising and monitoring all standard B2Bi protocols. This has a huge impact as we can't use ICC as a central monitoring solut...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Red Hat Linux clustering/HA support

A number of clients ask about about HA solutions and clustering support for Connect:Direct with Red Hat Linux. I've had a search around, but only found the usual (old) docs on HA support with AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows. I was trying to find somethi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Web Console must filter prior to displaying the stats

Every time I select statistics usinig Web Console, ICC does an initial search with no criteria and it takes more than minutes. After this initial search I can include criteria and make a new search. This approach makes a simple selection of statis...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Support for Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) for deployment on AWS

Customers are asking if B2BI/SFG can be deployed on Amazon Linux 2 on AWS.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Deferred Processing based on number of documents in a file

e have implemented only the time based deferred processing on SCBN with the minimum timeframe of 180 sec and it seems Electrolux now wants us to implement the batching on the basis of the number of documents as well which is not possible to achiev...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 5 Not under consideration

Add option in Config Centre to export codelist data in Excel (xls) format.

Config Center has the option to export codelist data either in XML format or JSON format but not in XLS (Excel). We have request from high volume SCBN customers to provide the codelist data from CTE/Production in excel (xls format) as it would hel...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Functionality already exists

Build and Deploy only the war needed + Build script per Env

IDEA-1: Todays it is not possible to build only selected war of the application that requires rebuild. Every time whole ear is built with all the wars which takes quite a time. It would be great if user can select the required war to be rebuild an...
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

ISCCSDEV war in QA and Staging +

IDEA-1 It would be great to have flexibility of deploying ISCCSDEV war in the IBM Cloud. When customer was on PREM - the build was controlled at customer end and deploying ISCCSDEV war at higher environment (QA,Staging) was always a saver to debug...
about 2 years ago in Call Center 1 Not under consideration