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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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Improve on C:D z/OS the last STEP COPY with all information after many restarts on the File Transfer incoming traffic

Description: To avoid information inconsistency of the STEP COPY (restart) of the file received and the C:D statistics information as records and VTAM bytes. Proposal is for C:D z/OS Caching all of the STEP COPY (restart) information on incoming F...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Improved Program Reporting from PEM

It's very difficult to know the status of our program even at the most basic level. I'm looking for some basic numbers such as: Number off Invites How many have started? How many have done nothing? How many are totally complete with the process?...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Allow creation of app/integration servers on OMoC to designate which server to implement on.

With normal on-prem implementation the customer has the ability to define what agent and integration servers run on what hardware to provide some degree of high availability as well as balance load on the servers. With the OMoC self-serve tool and...
about 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

WTX service discloses detail software versions & file system

WTX service discloses detail software versions & file system - Cases - IBM Support The Launcher process uses three TCP/IP ports. The first port is for status, the second port is for monitoring and the third port is port contr...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 3 Not under consideration

IfFlight: provide URL and/or AS2 name in details for inbound documents (specifically when no config)

When we received a no config error, we had no idea WHO sent the data. I did assume it was AS2, but could not narrow down where it came from to notify partner the ISA/GS ID was incorrect. A day later, I received the information from support - and w...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Alarm Certain Nodes Of A B2B Integrator Cluster

Customer needs to alarm only certain nodes of a B2B Integrator cluster.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Enable myFileGateway multi-factor authentication. Different fields be added for token and password

Enable different fields to be added in the Login's Page for myFilegateway. Ex: Username: Password: Token: We need to receive an extra field during login authentication on myFileGateway, as a random Token for example. Using pre-login Exit, User ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Looping RC validation check

We have encountered this problem many times, there is no precheck in SFG that will check for loops before deploying the routing channel. Due to this problem, we have ran into huge recursive file routing loops which kept reprocessing the same fi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release

Parameterization of Subject Line in the Email

By allowing variables to the subject of PEM emails, this will help to make email notifications more descriptive.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Allow custom OMS code access to DB Backup schema, same as what the data extract tool uses.

For requirements such as exporting inventory data or other non-transactional DB endeavors it would greatly improve performance and generally reduce risk to be able to access the backup DB schema in the production environment from OMS custom code. ...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists