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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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Develop generic XSL to convert XML to JSON for new XML validation Service

Develop a XSL to convert XML to Json convertion and deploy in XML validation service. This will help us to remove indivdiual ITX maps for those convertions.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Job Status >>> Job Item Summary enhancement for failed codelist due to duplicate entries

We have request from customers like VF Services to update new codelist entries (more then 100 +) for an already existing codelist . For such request Support/PER/Implementer would normally take the back up of the existing codelist (XML) and merge t...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Enhance your automated email on a VAN Failure transmission to us

We sometimes receive emails entitled: "IBM Sterling Information Broker Services (System Notification) - Message Undeliverable".The email tells us something went wrong sending a message from someone to someone. It lacks any useful information to he...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Not under consideration

Report needed that would show the File Agents and version of File Agent being used

No description provided
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add Business Alias field in inflight for a process(Process ID)

Existing Document search in BPN has a required field "Business Alias". So along with DateTime Range ; one has to put BA to track any document flowing into the system. One has to search business alias from existing customers business alias. Also if...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Better integration between manageOrganizationHierarchy and Calendars

The API for managing organizations allows the caller to specify the receiving, shipping and business calendars, but only by specifying the calendar key. The key is typically a system generated value which is unique to the environment and therefore...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration