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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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Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Protect usage of the 'decrypt_string.sh|cmd' command

The database password stored in sandbox.cfg can be encrypted, but the facility to decrypt it is readily available within the installation (i.e. "decrypt_string.cmd|sh"). A user with access to the SFG installation directory would therefore not have...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 4 Future consideration

Enable SNI support for SSL Cert Grabber

Currently if you use the SSL Cert Grabber to pull back a certificate from an endpoint that is using SNI to determine which TLS certificate to return, you will not get the correct TLS cert, but the TLS cert for the base domain. This can make it dif...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to create workflow based on the requester.

We have lots of different users of the tools with different roles and levels of authority. I would like to be able to create a workflow rule based on the requestor, so that, if that individual does not have the proper level of authority to make th...
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Delete all button under Envelopes->Documents awaiting enveloping screen is only deleting the entries of a single page instead of deleting all entries at a time. Make sure this button deletes all entries after giving a confirmation pop up at a time while clicking on Delete All

The customer wants to delete all the OLD entries in a single shot but the existing Delete all button under Envelopes->Documents awaiting enveloping screen only deletes the entries of a single page.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

More date and timestamp choices in transaction logs

This is high priority for being able to monitor effectively.There are very few time and date format choices. We are missing important European standards such as: Most importantly a 24 hour time format. Example: 18.30 instead of 06.30 PM Of all ava...
2 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 1 Submitted

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Enable IV to publish Node Availability events when Node Level Level safety factor changes or comes to effect

Consumers of IV have a local High/Medium/Low cache needs to get an update when there is a change in Node Level Level safety factor changes or comes to effect using the previous scheduled configuration to make sure they have up to date copy in cache
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enable SIP IV Inventory consideration update in Order Hub (Custom Supply/Demand Match)

Currently Inventory consideration is not editable by Business users and is not allowing to onboard strategic Supply Integration with different Supply Type and make them considered for Promising after the reconciliation is complete
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Future consideration