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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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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...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Expose Max Stops property at API request level instead of currently as static, system wide

This will improve performance when running findInventory and other sourcing APIs. A high value of Max Stops has a significant performance impact so having the ability to dynamically set this property at API request level will add a lot of value.
2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

We have refresh netmap in Mainframe Connect Direct and its not available in Linux connect direct

We had an issue with connect direct process, In the middle of file transfer client brought down the connect direct in primary server and brought up in the secondary. Since the process was interrupted and its keep retrying the primary server. Its n...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Uploading of Test Files to be Optional for IBMers

While uploading a map to Config Hub it is mandatory to upload a valid Input file even in CTE, along with the Source and Compiled map.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance speremove-packs.sh script to remove entries from the database

Right now, we have speremove-packs.sh script, which can remove the ITXA packs-related files from the File System, and it does not remove entries from the database. In the existing process if a customer wants to remove ITXA pack entries from the da...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

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

PGP Adapter : Enable support for different Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm

The OpenPGP adapter does not support all of the latest set of Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm natively. Below are the list of supported values Compression types (-COMALG) : ZLIB Encryption Algorithm (-ENCALG ) : 3DES , RIJNDAEL256...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

MapTrace should be written to memory

Currently, there is no equivalent to the SI Map Translation Report when ITX maps are handled. The MapTrace provides similar information in that it can be used to determine the cause for failure, however it is currently only possible to generated t...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 7 Needs more information

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.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Under review