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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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OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Needs more information

Audit Trail (2/4): accessing audit data in the back end

When accessing the SCIS TS solution with our login, and using the Graphical User Interface, we cannot see the origin of data. We would like to be able when clicking, through the standard GUI, on a product/document/event/facility to see the date/ti...
3 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Needs more information

Revoking a shared data authorization

We need a way to apply changes to the shared data status with the "interested parties" feature. Some data can be shared for a time then revoked later when a partnership between organization has ended.
3 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Needs more information

Create Business view in Config Center for Codelists, Mappings, Connections, Keys/Certficates

This feature will be helpful when there are codelists with same names across different BA's. Same map names such as document extraction maps or typing maps across different BA's. Could be helpful for connections and keys/certificates
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 4 Needs more information

ITX - Allow MapTrace to continue after first error

Currently, the MapTrace halts/stops after the first error is encountered. This makes debugging issues and correcting input data difficult, as only one error can be fixed at a time, then the file needs to be re-run to check if there are any other f...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 4 Needs more information

Support Load balancing for IBM DB2 service.

We are having b2bi(Sterling Integrator) installed in VM and Database we have for B2Bi is IBM DB2 and there are 3 IPs assigned to the DB and being load balanced with Round robin. This scenario seems not supported. Having support for this feature wi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Needs more information

Add support for HTTPS Content-Type: multipart/form-data

IBM Support states that the below is unsupported by SI: curl -X POST "https://$address/api/files" \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \ -H "Authorization: 550f9407-146a-4542-bdfb-428acbd558f3" \ -F "file=@...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Needs more information

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 4 Needs more information

Upgrade : Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.4 to Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.9

Please, we need your support to upgrade (with priority) from the current Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.4 to Websphere Liberty 23.0.0.9 due to vulnerabilities detected in Citibank environments, as we were informed by the partner that the requested versi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Kill Switch / Hardstop for Adapters in irresponsive stat

Hi Team, we had many occasions where an adapter is in irresponsive stat, and we will not be able to start the adapter via Sterling dashboard or via opscmd.sh / opscmd.cmd. We have tried many times to stop via opscmd.sh/cmd and start it still comes...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information