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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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Access to multiple mailboxes from one MFG user

The ability to log onto MFG as a user and to be able to navigate to other user's mailboxes, security permitting. This would enable third parties to send files using MFG to their mailboxes and a number of other users to use MFG to see and download ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Ability to start individual App Server

There are situation, very often, that requires us to restart API servers, Call center servers, specific agent, specific integ server. We do not have that ability in the OMoC. Like we can pull call center logs, but we cannot restart just call cente...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

Visibility into Workflow for Non-Administrative Users

As a standard user, I need to have better visibility into the progress of a workflow where I have an assigned task. There are many workflows and participants in these workflows and as a user, I need to be able to plan my work so that I can anticip...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 2 Future consideration

Gentran:Server SMTP is currently not supported with Microsoft Office 365 Cloud / Exchange Online (EXO) which use newer SMTP/TLS protocols. We need a solution to make it work once we migrate to SMTP/TLS protocol.

All Gentran Server clients planning to migrate to Microsoft Office 365 Cloud / Exchange Online (EXO) which use newer SMTP/TLS protocol.

Enable Log Rollover based on Size and not Number of lines

I enabled Translation Logs setting the Log Level to ON with Rolling Over every 100000 lines. It started creating the logs of size as big as 52 GB which is really huge in size and doesn't make any sense as it can't be read. Please provide the Log R...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Optimized locking of YFS_ORDER_HEADER record , more granular control for changeOrder API.

Customer order can be updated by multiple agents at the same time, most of it can result in changeOrder API calls. This results in row lock contention in YFS_ORDER_Header record by select for update query, ccfrfn4vuhtt0. The ask here is provide mo...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Planned for future release

Export users list with user status (enabled or disabled)

Admin is not able to enable or disable the users in Sterling Filegateway and not able to export the user status whether the user is in active state or not.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Add a feature to load codelist to IBM Transformation Extender (ITX) Design studio for local testing

We are using codelists for 90 percent of clients and currently, we do not have an option to load the codelists to the ITX design studio for local testing as we do for the SI mapping server. We are depending on CTE/Production testing to validate ma...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration