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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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Only specific user should have access to specific BP Primary document and Instance Data

We have a business scenario, where for security reasons we want only allowed user(s) to have access to a specific BP flow execution. All users / superusers , who are not allowed to view this data, should not be able to view the Primary Document / ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future 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).
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 9 Future consideration

Conditional Runtask/Runjob

We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Needs more information

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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

"Read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups

It would be interesting for our business model to have a "read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups. This way, they can see what is in the menu but cannot make any changes. There are "read-only" options in various pa...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed

It would be interesting if the Active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed on files and folders in the Web Client, such as copying, pasting, deleting, cloning, or moving to another location. This would allow us to have a rec...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

OAGIS 10.0 is not available in map editor, only 9.0 is available

Customers with Oracle applications and other XML-based applications are using OAGIS 10.0 versions which are not available in Sterling standard/maps. We tried to load the OAGIS 10.0 schemas into the map editor and map editor crashed due to the size...
24 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Submitted

myfilegateway GUI popup messages

We are using IBM MyFileGateway v1.0 solution for HTTPs file transfer. Our customers are using this portal for upload/download files over HTTPs. Our Internal Business Team raised serious concerns over UI observations/issues which are easily noticea...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Functionality already exists