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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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ZIP adapter stores without path

Customer wants a zip file from two input files. I have the ZIP adapter working to do this: =VALID(PUT("ZIP", "FILE," + GETDIRECTORY(ZIPOut) + "output.zip, " + GETFILENAME(File1) + " " + GETFILENAME(File2), " "), "Failed ZIP") The two input files a...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Delivered

Need to be able to patch B2Bi with an Oracle SSL connection

Once B2Bi is installed you can configure an Oracle SSL connection per these steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.sb2bi_install_upgrade_526.doc/_shared_files/SI_ConfigDataTraffEncySSL_Unix.html However in...
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered

Alert to potential duplicate files

If CCM sees multiple instances of the same filename of the same size uploaded to the same SFG/B2Bi mailbox within a configurable time period then it should alert to it as a possible duplicate. This cannot be done using SLCs currently. It should no...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

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...
about 1 year ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 1 Delivered

Provision to Choose Perimeter Server in SSH KEY GRABBER and SSL Certificate GRABBER in UI and Exposing this service via REST API

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over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Ability to "configure" the location of files created in the ITX Design Studio directory

The "IBM Sterling Transformation Extender Design Studio" application writes a log file in the root directory of the installation folder. Example is the "ttmaker.log" generated when we import a Type Tree through the XML Schema Importer. IDEA: Abili...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

The credit card industry has always has PCI as an auditing group or tool to ensure the safety and accountability when files containing card holder data is ported from end to end sites.The idea is to introduce comprehensive PCI reporting of actions taken within the connect direct application to update, modify, delete and add new items by an administrator.

The credit card industry PCI audits are becoming more intrusive. These audit groups employed by credit card processing companies are doing deep dives into products that handle credit card data and or sensitive information. In the past, the file tr...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 4 Delivered

Get functionality to retreive data from codelist

Currently we have functionality to update the code list via API. There is already another RFE to create codelists via API. This RFE is to have a GET Functionality to retrieve data from codelists.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Delivered

Provide an option to view the screens using the MS Edge (Java) User Interface (IU) in a 'COMPACT' format to reduce the large amount of white space currently on the screen.

It would be very useful for anyone using the Java UI for Sterling Connect Direct to see more information at once instead of scrolling up and down just to see one piece of information.It would be especially useful using the 'STATISTICS' enquiry bec...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

Improve diagnostic accuracy of Secure+ error messages

We often get Secure+ error messages (prefix CSPA) that don’t necessarily indicate a Secure+ issue. This makes it difficult to monitor for errors. The error messages that have caused us the most difficulty are: CSPA202E SSL handshake failure, re...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered