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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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Limit number of alerts for same BP failure

We have set up an alert that sends an email for a Business Process that is processed with errors. At a given time, there may be thousands of failures for the same BP, and we do not want to receive emails for each and every failure of the same kind.
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 5 Under review

Enhancement request for SIP support on AWS Keyspaces

We are requesting an enhancement to enable support for Sterling Integration Platform (SIP) on AWS Keyspaces. Currently, SIP is not certified to run on AWS Keyspaces, which limits deployment flexibility for cloud-native architectures. SIP is certif...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Integrate CCM with Open Telemetry

Provide the ability to emit key MFT/B2B events using Open Telemetry so they can be consumed and used for troubleshooting with open tools. Adding CCM capability to consume Open Telemetry signals will simplify integration across 3rd party products a...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

ID logging for added / deleted/ modiifed ID's in User proxy/ Functional Authorities

We need logging to be done as to what ID has been added deleted or modified in connect Direct Proxy users or functional authorities in windows Connect Direct as currently no modification can be seen of users only submitter details are found
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Add ability to adjust periods used in calculating issue size

Since we have a great deal of historical data in the tool, I would like to be able to adjust the time period used in calculating the issue quantity, much as I can control how many usage periods are included in the forecast. For one example we look...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Within BPML, SFTPClient operation set needs a way to check status of an active session: introduce SFTPClientSessionStatus call.

One fundamental problem is that sometimes the SFTP Session will inadvertently end mid-operation, perhaps closed by server. When this happens, an operation call like SFTPClientList or SFTPClientPut will simply fault. It will return a SessionEndTime...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

SIP Compatibility with AWS OpenSearch

The SIP is currently compatible with Elasticsearch 7.17.9 and future fix packs. It leverages the Elasticsearch Java client version 7.17.28, which includes a built-in validation for the response header "X-Elastic-Product: Elasticsearch". This heade...
3 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management for Sterling B2B Integrator in Alignment with Zero Trust Architecture

Hi, As organizations continue progressing toward Zero Trust Architecture, the importance of secure and streamlined certificate management becomes increasingly critical. We request for enhancement to B2B Certificate management. Current Challenge:To...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review