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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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Add DR profile when primary doesn't work

Provide feature to add disaster recovery(DR) IPs by various partners for their primary sites while we setup sftp or other protocol remote profiles while configuring the profile. As on date, there is no way for SFG to setup so that the disaster rec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Linux

Regarding Connect:Direct(Managed File Transfer), We would like to request getting support for Oracle Linux as soon as possible.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

YPMValidateCouponUE needs to do default coupon validation after the UE is invoked

On Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10Fix Pack: 32 When ValidateCouponUE is enabled, Sterling does not give YPM_RULE_INVALID response if the coupon does not exist. The CouponStatusMsgCode field in the output is blank. Consumer applications need error re...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Option to exclude MAILBOX messages from PurgeAll.sh

We run SI as stateless, but use MAILBOX for B2B communication. We clean up SI once every quarter to improve the performance / response time. The clean up process becomes cumbersome because we have to make sure all MAILBOX messages are backed up un...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Not under consideration

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 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Sterling map editor - Search and replace option in Extended rule tab

Sterling map editor does not have the option to find or replace any codes in extended rule tab . Presently we using notepad by copying the code manually from map editor and finding or replacing the logic's, which is taking more time and some times...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Requesting sub-sequence number capture to track line item or sub-level groups if required.

Requesting sub-sequence number capture to track line item or sub-level groups if required. Currently we have sequence number generation for every map run. But we encounter request from client to assign sequence number for every line item and updat...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

Allow Sterling Integrator to support STARTTLS SMTP when connecting to MS Office 365

I am geting the following error java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:java.rmi.RemoteException: B2BMailSMTPImpl, mail cannot be sent because of an exception received from the server; nested except...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 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 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Not under consideration