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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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To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SSP rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SSP making it very difficu...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

The max carrier service capacity should be considered by SIP Optimizer when selecting a carrier service

During holidays, ULTA have carrier services that impose caps on the number of packages. For example, they only want to ship 1000 packages using Fedex Ground for that day. Any more packages cannot be shipped by Fedex Ground on that day. So SIP Opti...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Record API.MAX reports in statistics.

Record API.MAX reports in statistics to support CD tunning.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Needs more information

Enable Search and Replace functionality through Codelist

Currently B2Bi SAAS have options to Search and Replace characters through map and BPNST rules. However, the customer is looking for easier solution, where instead of the customer would like to add the HEXCODE of the Problematic characters into the...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Submitted

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

include attachment with error info in email indicating ingestion failure

Creating this cause as directed in case TS017610463 Configuration file data is loaded into SIP-Optimizer via the file transfer adapter https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/intelligent-promising?topic=id-downloading-installing-configuring-sterling-intellige...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release