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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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Having mode T or O dynamic in APIs through CXTransferSubmit in CX Unix (linux) for Societe Generale

Due to a concentration project at Societe Generale where all transfers are going to be concentrated in a Central Hub (SFG + CX) we faced an issue regarding the mixed of partners defined in mode T and Partners in mode O. In order to not multiply th...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Data...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

File Retention in Mailbox Post File Download in MyFileGateway 2.0

In the current state, MyFileGateway 2.0 does not allow for a file to remain in the mailbox post download. Looking for an option for files to not be invalidated/archived and remain in the mailbox for a pre-specified amount of days.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 2 Not under consideration

ITXA - Need Support for the HIPAA_277CA_Unique_BHT03 Compliance Check Parameter

A new parameter - HIPAA_277CA_Unique_BHT03 - has been added to the set of configurable HIPAA Compliance Check map parameters in the Pack for Healthcare V10.1. This parameter allows Yes and No settings. For the BHT03 content to function effectively...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Keep Filters When Switching from Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitory or any monitor

Our users often switch from the Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitor and vice versa often. The user may have certain items filtered in the Active Monitor and then if they switch to the Queued Activity Monitor and back to the Active Monitor, t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Out of the box purge agent for clearing entries in INV_INVENTORY_ITEM_LOCK table

As part of the Hot SKU implementation, Lululemon has enabled granular locking at the Item / Node / demand level by adding following properties in Customer overrides. This has improved the performance of the system by reducing database row lock co...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

collect ebics client messages from B2BI as a standard protocol

Today only Ebics server messages are collected by ICC. for EBICs client, nothing gets to ICC, and therefore ICC is not supervising and monitoring all standard B2Bi protocols. This has a huge impact as we can't use ICC as a central monitoring solut...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration