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File Agent doesn’t support Certificate-based authentication, it will be difficult for us to manage the passwords on File Agent authentications.

We have around 35,000 Connect:Direct nodes and File Agents will be deployed across all the stores. We have a password policy where the passwords are going to expire every 90 days, Maintenance of these many nodes will be a tedious task. Switching t...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Native support for Azure Blob Storage acess

For supportability it would be great to see native support added for Azure Blob Storage along with the current plan to support S3
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 6 Delivered

ICC Support of SMTP with SSL/TLS encryption

Most modern SMTP Service require SMTP/s to leverage their services. IBM B2Bi supports this but ICC does not. This makes it hard to find an SMTP service that meets or clients email needs.

Rest API to trigger a Business Process

Trigger a Business Process via API with 2 modes: 1- Synchronous : Wait for the Business Process Execution 2- Asynchronous: Trigger the BP and get a return code (BP started successfully)
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Support for wildcard certificate

At times we have customers who are using a wildcard certificate for SFG, or a certificate with multiple host names. PEM throws an error when trying to connect SFG if the host name in certificate and URL does not match.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Delivered

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

Control Center Rule Correlation

Two of the things we utilize Control Center for is SLC notification and processes that do not end successfully. We have some transmissions that are monitored on SLCs that are contractual (sla). We do get an alert if the sla transmission has not st...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 4 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

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

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