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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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Support SWIFT Alliance Cloud

Customers using B2Bi to provide connectivity to SWIFT are considering options to adopt containers and even public cloud. SWIFT now offer a cloud offering (https://www.swift.com/products/alliance-cloud) which would enable a wholesale move to public...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Submitted

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Export files in UTF8 format

Gentran exports inbound files in ASCI format. If Netweaver option is select to send the idocs to SAP, the idoc file format has to be in UTF8, this is what IBM suggested. Please add an option in Gentran where files export has an option to select AS...

When I told our Trading Partner I show the transaction was picked up they asked for the Mailbag # so their VAN could investigate. It would be nice if the Mailbag # is available in InFlight.

For when a Trading Partner is told they have picked it up and then ask us for the Mailbag # we won't have to open a case to get this information, will save time for both IBM & our company.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

Add Transfer Method in use (Text or Binary) for CDW and CDU

During our transfers from remote partners, we are frequently called to assist others with translation and file transport issues. Many of our remote users are unaware of the CD processes in use and how they function. We need to have the ability to ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Enhancing Attribute Display Flexibility in XML Schema Type Trees

When using an XML schema directly as a type tree, the attributes are typically presented in alphabetical order rather than the original sequential order defined in the schema. According to the XML schema specification, the order of attributes does...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users.

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users and help to refer the shipment/order linked to transaction type of the inventory change. Example below In Inventory audit details screen in Order Hub UI the Reference...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists