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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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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

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

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

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.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future 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...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under 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

Control Center needs the ability to pull account passwords from a corporate password manager/vault

Due to security requirements and best practices, passwords should be changed periodically and wherever possible, should not be stored on local systems in text/XML files, etc. Control Center should have an option to utilize external Password Vault ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration