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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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Archived document should always contains both input and output data even though there are multiple processing steps.

I have noticed that, for a flow, IBM is receiving the files from the trading partner with the CII format and converting them to XML format before sending them to the customer, and finally, the customer is receiving XML files from IBM. In this flow...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS. In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost. There is the...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

During SPE Enveloping service ISA & GS control number not getting incremented when a file has both Good and Bad transaction sets.

Issue Description:- We have integrated ITX with ITXA and calling Envelopes from ITXA by using SPE adapter in ITX rule. In the EDI Message, If we have a good transaction set as well as bad transaction set. The envelope is not being added to the EDI...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration
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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available in ru...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flow within CD/Z when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/Z initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/Z via ALT.COMM path(s).
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 9 Future consideration

Have an option for Items List View "Notes" icon be visible for Item Notes only

Currently the "Notes Icon" in the Items List view is intended to let the user know if there are relevant notes for the user, however notes are created every time an item is submitted through workflow, so many items present as having a "Note", when...
22 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Ability to modify public filters

Unable to modify or delete public filters once they are shared. Admin or originator of the public filters should have the ability to modify or delete these public filters. These filters are extremely useful and a edit feature will very helpful.
22 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists