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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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Bulk export maps from ConfigHub/ConfigCenter

Currently we dont have any option to export all maps (.mxl) from ConfigHub or Config Center. It is a TDS task to support and implementations teams to download all the maps one by one. By implementation this we can save a lot of time. Now a days cu...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

User Exit enhancement allowing a map to read rows in the TransactionRegister

Adding the requirement as SCBN Premium customer has requested duplicate file check based on PO number, within a given timeframe. Their current requirement is to check for duplicate PO within 72 hours. Based on feedback from development team the ti...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

SFG API service to update Known Host Key

The current infrastructure in our org has close to 50k SFTP remote profiles configured and for almost 30% of them the known host key has to be renewed every 3-6 months or so. The current API services do not allow updates to be made to a known host...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Wild Card Searches in Call Center

In the Call Center UI, we'd like to be able to complete wild card searches for many or all of the fields. For example, if I wanted to search for all orders that are from an IBM email address I could search *IBM.com. This would bring up all orders ...
3 months ago in OMS - Call Center 5 Functionality already exists

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration

Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

Portable installation for B2B (non container)

In our environment we do not use container for B2B, but we have an automated installation process using IBM Installation Manager, however this process is slow and difficult to generate all the steps to make it autonomous. We would like the B2B ins...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

CyberArk AIM Integration/Connector

As part of security's best practices, it is mandatory that all applications have a connector with CyberArk to retrieve passwords from functional users, so it isn't allowed to storage static passwords in the local servers/Properties files from appl...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 5 Not under consideration

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration