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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...
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...

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Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Feature to close bulk PEM Portal and Provisioner Activities

Currently, each activity or rollout has to be manually and separately closed. During development, Unit Testing, and UAT cycles lots of activities are created. There should be a way in PEM to bulk close Portal and Provisioner activities based on fi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

referenced TypeTree (parts)

You can build one TypeTree or one strucutre and can use it for example as part of choice-group in another TypeTree. Everybody that use TypeTree as a kind of central unit and have to reuse these structures in other interfaces will benefit.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Update SI to support the latest version of GnuPG using the provided CLA2CMD Adapter (RTC 584840)

Currently Sterling Integrator supplied GnuPG Adapter supports PGP V2.0. This has been depreciated on 31st December 2017. The newest versions (currently 2.2.16) fail to work (see RTC 584840) with the internally supplied cla2cmd adapter.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Not under consideration

Option to exclude MAILBOX messages from PurgeAll.sh

We run SI as stateless, but use MAILBOX for B2B communication. We clean up SI once every quarter to improve the performance / response time. The clean up process becomes cumbersome because we have to make sure all MAILBOX messages are backed up un...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Change selector page from number to dropdown box while navigating multiple records

Change the page selector from 1,2,3...100 to dropdown box 1-10, 11-20,etc.It is easier to select directly from the dropdown box, instead of going to page 10 and then few more, since not all pages are displayed.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

MS GRAPH API Protocol for B2Bi Mail Client Service Adaptor

We have one integration where we are using B2B Mail Client Adapter to fetch mails and perform operations. Now Exchange servers from where we are downloading mails are moving to Cloud. They want us to use protocol like MS graph API or Exchange Web ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Call Center Dark Mode

We would like the new call center to have a dark mode as it will create more contrast from the text on the screen and therefore allow some users to better view the program. This will create more accessibility for some users with vision issues.
about 1 year ago in OMS - Call Center 8 Not under consideration

Automatic Control of Sessions between the client and partners to avoid Wait Sessions

If the client has in netmap configuration session limit defined and the partner has in their netmap configuration session limit different from the client, it will leave the process in wait and sometimes depending on the volume, Connect:Direct will...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Configuring Mailbox User Interface through HTTP protocol for Global Mailbox

We recently installed Global Mailbox on existing Sterling Integrator and currently working on migrating partners from traditional SI mailboxes to Global Mailboxes. We use SFTP, NDM (connect direct) and HTTPs protocols for file transmission. For SF...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration