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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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999 ISA Control Number

Currently the ISA control number (ISA) always has a value of 000000001 in every 999 transaction that is generated out of compliance. X12.5 Interchange Control Structure section 5.1.2 requires a unique number within a reasonably extended time frame...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Delivered

Develop a compliance check for the 277CA

It is common for claims processor to do pre-adjudication business editing in addition to doing transaction compliance checking. The results of the pre-adjudicated processing are reported on the 277CA. Currently there is not a compliance map for th...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Delivered

Type 5 editing based on date of service for medical code sets

Currently type 5 editing is based on processing. Medical codes are based on the date of service and not processing date. We are requesting an enhancement for at least all of the 837 transactions to include the PACDR to edit medical codes sets (ICD...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Delivered

Create UserCredentials API returns error when password has '<' or '>' characters

Following PR API is failing when we have < or > character in password . Can you enhance the password entry to accept all special character for password. Following are the more details. PEM URL: https://apps.pem.ibmcloud.com/equifax/home?loca...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 6 Delivered

Allow Legal Characters in SSH Remote Profile Fields (Sterling File Gateway)

There are several characters that are legal in the SSH protocol, but are not allowed in the SFG UI and B2B API's. Remote Hostname: ~!@#$%^&*()_+=[]{}|\:’;”<>,?/ and SPACE Remote Host Username: !#%^&*()+{}[]|’;”<>? and SPACE Rem...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Delivered

Enable FIPS mode support to IBM Native PGP

My companies security and compliance required FIPS enabled for payload encryption for specific data classifications and exchanging data with specific US government entities. My company wanted to leverage IBM Native PGP instead of a 3rd party exter...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Add appl.id & policy.id PasswordExit parameters to Functional Authorities

Currently Password Exit feature for Connect Direct for Windows allows to specify "passwrod.exit.appl.id" & "password.exit.policy.id" only in the "Initparms" section. The aim is to add more granularity to the configuration and provide an option...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Carrier Integration without Manifest

Carrier integration is needed to generate tracking number and print shipping label. API getTrackingNoAndPrintLabel is used to get tracking number and print label. This API adds ManifestKey and ManifestNo to YFS_SHIPMENT table. This necessitates us...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Delivered

Claim level reject enhancement

Currently with claim level rejection if there are duplicate CLM01 values, claim level rejection is not possible. We would like the recommend an enhancement to check the entire CLM segment for duplication which may eliminate the duplication of the ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Delivered

Hashmaps as a storage for reference tables

In TX, a very efficient way to perform a lookup is to use SEARCHUP/SEARCHDOWN, provided the series is properly sorted. However, the first call is very costly as it need to build the B-Tree to be used for later navigations. This creates a threshold...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Delivered