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Ctrl+A should work to select all within a text box

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almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Add non-breaking space into a label field

Add spaces at the beginning or end of a label
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

ASN timeliness issue corrective action during VAN outage

We recently had a Sterling VAN outage where all our ASNs were delayed to our Customers. This caused the timeliness issue and we received penalty. We can avoid it if either of below two solution is implemented in Inflight.1. Once a VAN outage is de...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

format string parser

Please add a parser/validator of format srings into the compiler, so that WTX developers are being notified of invalid format strings that won't work in the WTX engine.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Make the "use ellipses button" a display option

The Map Designer provides a way to use ellipses when draggin'-n-dropin' type references into a rule. This is very nice to make rules more compact and usually improves readability. However, "getting back" to the referenced type is sometimes an issu...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

use ressource registry for mdq login data

In order to address the different configuration items between production, integration and development environment, WTX offers a ressource registry. We can define the different names of a queue manager, for example: $QMN in production resolves to Q...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Management Tools 0 Not under consideration

static nature of calling TX maps from Java

currently, the APIs to call maps via Java works well. However, when a map is instantiated, it is via static method. Further attempts to instantiate the same class throws an error. IBM to look at this and see if there is someway to relax this behav...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

DFDL support in ITX

The use of DFDL for data format definition is getting popular especially in IBM products. Please add DFDL into ITX as a standard
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 0 Not under consideration

RFE for SSP - User Lockout feature

SSP - User Lockout feature. SSP -> Credentials -> User Store -> User Lockout Threshold setting A user account is locked after a specified number of failed login attempts. The number of failed login attempts allowed is defined by the User ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Create Upgrade/Migration Process for SSP Engines/CMs

The SSP CM and Engines currently have to be on the same point release to function. This prevents a customer with a large installation base from gradually upgrading their environment. We have one CM with cold fail over and as many as 24 Engines att...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration