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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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Sterling map editor - Adding option to copy/select multiple records/fields at a time

Sterling map editor does not support to select/copy multiple records/segment/feilds in the map
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Add JDBC importer to Design Studio(Eclipse) or Database interface Designer

The only way to import a typetree for JDBC adapter, is to call an external java command line com.hcl.hip.tools.adapterdriver.TreeImporter for the adapter com.hcl.hip.adapters.m4jdbc. This is not a user friendly solution.
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR (ACR) support for ICC and underlying COGNOS

DB2 Clustering (HADR) is well accepted in the DB2 community. SFG has recently added support for the ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) functionality to take advantage of DB2 clusters perss this link:SFG_with_ACR SCC support for DB2 clusters is also n...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Office 365 Message Encryption/Decryption

Request is for Microsoft Office Message Encryption/Decryption functionality for SFG. This will be required where 3rd party Producers/Consumers are using OME as their preferred encryption tool.
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Not under consideration

Change security logs format

The security logs can be changed to display more information in a single line. It will help security teams to identify who creates/deletes users or groups.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Support Open API 3.0 specifications int he OpenAPI typetree importer

As of now the OpenAPI importer only support swagger 2.0 json format. However, as the OpenApi V3 in json/yaml become more and more common it would be very usefull for ITX to support it.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Create multiple indexes in one shot

When developing and working with item(s), it could be interesting to create several indexes of an item in one shot. This is to avoid using the "add index" function again and again (which is time consuming)
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Allowing to Administrator Sponsor Users to Edit the Same Activity

We would like to request that two Sponsor administrator users have the ability to edit the same activity. Currently unless you are the one who creates or "saves" the activity it is not possible to edit. This has proven difficult for version contro...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

support Alma 8

support of Alma8 OS needed for AWS deployment
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

CD Windows: CODEPAGE MBCS change mlang.dll for MultiByteToWideChar Win32 API

After a lot of months discussingg with IBM CD lab and Microsoft developement support (see cases TS011672863 and TS014123302), Microsoft accepts that mlang.dll has a problem with copepage conversion in CDWindows with ISO8859-15 and UTF8. Their reco...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration