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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...
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...

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No need of loading exiting Company list by default in Config center

No need of loading existing Company list by default in Config center, this can save lot of time of developer, instead of that, we can add give option to load button.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Future consideration

No need of loading exiting enevlopes list by default in Config center

No need of loading exiting Map list by default in Config center, this can save lot of time of developer, instead of that, we can add give option to load button.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Future consideration

No need of loading exiting Map list by default in Config center

No need of loading exiting Map list by default in Config center
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Future consideration

Versions in Rules at BPN Support tool

Versions in Rules at BPN Support tool to switch to previous setup if any issues
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Need to switch option while selecting sender id and receiver id in Inflight

Need to switch option while selecting sender id and receiver id in Inflight
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

B2Bi AS2 infoarmation is not sent to IBM Contol Center

Hi Team, we would like to monitor the as2 files details in ICC control center but as of now we got to know from IBM PMR that most of the AS2 is in system BP's which is not sent to CCM, CCM will really only see the HTTP protocol session. All you ha...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to deploy database changes such as adding a new field ahead of the full deployment.

Due to it taking an extra hour about for the DB entity updates and the required re-org activity a deployment that adds a new field takes longer than a normal deployment. Due to this want to be able to run it separately just like the on-prem versio...
about 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Verify ControllerWorkflow is functioning properly in 6.0.2.1 with regard to force terminate

ControllerWorkflow.sh doesn't seem to be force terminating a BP when it is in a halting or active state when the BP shows it is in wait queue.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Is a defect