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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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Enable Online Customer Protocol Creations

In order to maintain flexibility of the platform, while reducing the impact of change live Business Processes called by existing protocols, Sterling should allow the creation of new custom protocols online, and not need a full shutdown to take eff...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Code List Metrics - How often used, and when last used

We currently use multiple code lists in our environment. Over the years, these code lists have grown exponentially. Unfortunately, we have no way of easily knowing how often a row within a code list is used, or when the last time that row was used...
30 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Need the ability to disable the Shut Down the System link within Troubleshooter

Currently the Troubleshooter page has a variety of highly valuable Operations tools, but often there is a need to disable specific functions within the Troubleshooter, not the least of which is the Shut Down the System (softstop) option. Operation...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Add a "reject" button in addition to approve and defer.

The current practice of our users, if they do not want to accept the tool's recommended parameters, is to make a note, select "approve" but leave the export button unchecked. It can be difficult to determine whether or not the tool's recommendatio...
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Need a Deployment specific role in Self Service Tool to manager deployments in Production.

We need a role in Self Service that is only for People who will do deployment in Production. Currently we only have 4 types of Role in prod Developer (Production), Developer (Non-Production), Stakeholder and Administrator. There is no specific seg...
about 1 month ago in Self Service Tool 1 Not under consideration

Ability to view deployment history till last 1 year in Self Service Tool.

Need to have deployment history reflected for the last 1 year in Self Service tool.
about 1 month ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Under review

Disable inventory safety factor on distribution group level

Currently, there is no option to ignore inventory safety factor when set on node level and configured in global inventory visibility. The option to disable safety factors on distribution group level would be beneficial in order to be able to monit...
4 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Capacity assessment of ITXA Rest Server

We are developing ITX maps that will access ITXA codelist for several fields mapping. Below are the expected scenarios: 1. There will be 100s of ITX maps to be developed to access ITXA codelist 2. Each map can access several times in a single exec...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration