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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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User Role Page should have the ability to see the users assigned to particular role

This feature will be very useful for Client Admins to see the names of the users to whom a particular role is assigned. Also, for IBM team it will be good to know from UI who the client admins are for every client and we can keep a check on number...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

How to pass SACCT and PACCT details to remote CD Node using CDServer CopyTo Service in sterling integrator?

We have a requirement to PASS the SACCT and PACCT details to remote CD node from sterling integrator. We do not find any relavent fields in the CopyTo service in sterling integrtor to handle these values. Can you please provide the tags we need to...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Improvements to JMS monitoring screen in SST

I'll attach my suggestion / queries in a docx as it includes some pictures. In summary, since the move to the new JMS monitoring we have some questions and suggestions for how it could be improved, in particualr on the Queue depth graph and the qu...
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

GET Function to be setup for API Inbound

We have a client named Zimmer BioMet whose business lays in Healthcare sector. They have alot of partner who trade EDI/NON-EDI messages via API Integration. B2BiSaas does provide API as a mode of communication but the requirement in specific to th...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Under review

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

PCM File Reprocessing

User would like the ability to see the status updating with the appropriate status once a file has been reprocessed. Example when a file has been reprocessed user would like to see the different stages the file is flowing though (Processed, Timed ...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Archive post processed/ Final delivery payload in the Inflight

In the archive process on SCBN, Currently we are archiving original input data and output data from the translation step. But we are expecting final output data which is delivered to partner after all post-processing steps in the flow instead of t...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Planned for future release