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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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Ability to create single relationship setup which can handle multiple folders for FTP/SFTP

Business scenario : Currently our system configuration allows only one FTP/SFTP folder to be pointed under single Sterling Commerce Inflight relationship. Sometimes we get request from client for 1xFTP/SFTP setup but route different file type to r...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Develop generic XSL to convert XML to JSON for new XML validation Service

Develop a XSL to convert XML to Json convertion and deploy in XML validation service. This will help us to remove indivdiual ITX maps for those convertions.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Better integration between manageOrganizationHierarchy and Calendars

The API for managing organizations allows the caller to specify the receiving, shipping and business calendars, but only by specifying the calendar key. The key is typically a system generated value which is unique to the environment and therefore...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Solve Security issue user creditionals management console on ITX version 10

When you configure the management console on a Linux host (probably also on Windows) to connect to a launcher, You are required to configure the network connection to the launcher and the username and password to logon. This configuration is store...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Management Tools 1 Not under consideration

Required JSON Generic converter service for GIODE

Issue: When we need JSON to XML or XML to JSON conversion, we always depend on new ITX Map. Its kind of extra work for us to convert JSON to XML and XML to JSON. We should develop a new map for every XML and JSON structure. Why cant we have a ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Identification of Destination Filename at map level or rule level

Destination filename can be set at map level or rule level based on the client requirements. Recently we had a discussion about the client migration to SPE02 system where report need to be generated whether the destination filename for inbound map...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex di...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

ERROR - SAP Status Messages reporting incorrect information if one IDOC fails all IDOCs in batch will show failed

IBM SAP Status Messages are reporting inaccurate information. Example, 1000 IDOCs are sent outbound from SAP to IBM in a batch. 3 IDOCS fail with status 04 from IBM. IBM will send back that all 1000 IDOCs have failed with status 04 even though onl...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define picking capacity at order line level

This is copied over from: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=59894 What is the requested functionality Picking capacity* is maintained for each fulfilment unit (STO, CDC,CPU etc) on Order Line level. T...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration