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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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Need to display source and destination folder in email alert

Our Managed File Transfer team is under tremendous pressure to migrate file transfers from legacy standalone FTP servers to the Sterling Managed File Transfer solution. An incredibly influential business unit needs both the source/producer and des...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

API for AS2 profile creation

If there is an API available for AS2 profile creation in Sterling Integrator, then it will greatly help to automate partner on-boarding process through a self service portal. Currently it requires business users to have technical exposure to Sterl...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 5 Delivered

Add SOCKS Support for All SSP Protocols

This would be useful in our environment so that we have the ability to refresh hardware at a more rapid pace without having to worry about maintaining IP addresses in the refresh or notify our customers that we are moving to new infrastructure. Ou...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

CX/ZOS OXBL138I INCOMING COMMUNICATION : if SSL, have the SSL Profile

When a SSL incoming communication arrive and the hanshake fails, it can be because of the SSL Profile used. But, without looking precisely in the SYSSSL member, it can be difficult to see the SSL Profile which is used. It would be great if this in...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Enable TLS support for JDBC database connection

Cannot find any reference in Sterling B2B Advanced Communications documentation that TLS is supported for connections to the database. Requesting to add support for this feature.
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Add API for standard, wildcard, and workflow slcs

Currently there aren't any APIs for standard, wildcard, and workflow slcs. Only for simple slcs, which we do not use.

Ability to use TLS 1.2 for LDAP adapter inside B2B Integrator

Currently LDAP adapter allows only password based authentication. It would be really benefit banks if password & certificate are used for two factor authentication.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Delivered

E-mail Notification Before Password for Admin Account Expires

If the password used for APIs expires partners get error messages. There should be a warning so that this can be updated before it expires so partners do not see the error.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Oracle 12.2 support

This idea is rather obvious. We need support for Oracle 12.2. The current compatibility list of ITX 9.0.0 lists version 12.1 only.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Delivered

Provide a compiler for TX on other operating systems than Windows

Current version of TX only support compiling of maps and systems on Windows. This also impacts compiling of BAR files when a flow contains a TX node. Since most build systems run on Linux, it would be easier to configure and run TX compiles on a L...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered