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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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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.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Is a defect

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files to Daimler customer via T system because there is an issue with T-system due to missing header information. This has been showstopper for our VAN migration project and le...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Add System Acknowledgment status generated off an outbound communication protocol result

In line with the current System Acknowledgment solution around sending a message back for an outbound transaction with the translation status (SYSACK1) and processing a functional Acknowledgement back from a trading partner for the corresponding o...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action

The Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action to perform user customized actions like Rest API to push the partner details to customer LDAP or customer custom tables for auditing or other purposes. As SSO implementation is getting int...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Planned for future release

Properly document SEAS

There are many screens in SEAS UI that are not documented at all or fully.
about 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Provide Client Machine Certificate instead of User Certificate

When we download certificate from SST, it's is a User certificate. To install this certificate on user's machine, user need to install is manually one by one. We need steps on how to download client machine certificate, So that we can directly dep...
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Containers should support logging to filesystem, console, or both.

Our containers need to be configurable via helm to log to either a persistent volume, the console, or both. A lot of our containers today support either console or persistent volume but do not allow both at the same time.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Sample Data for NCPDP D.0 all types

We would like to get some sample data for NCPDP D.0 all types, or a functionality to create proper sample data which aligns with all the component rules and restrictions.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Planned for future release