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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...
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...

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Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Set ROQ to One as a new ROQ Method

Many of our clients manage their 'Repairable' stocked materials by setting a Re-Order Qty (ROQ) = 1. In the case of our SAP clients, this means setting the Maximum to be the same as the Re-Order Point (ROP). This request is to create a new ROQ Met...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

gmsa account

Azure provide GMSA account for their customers . As per IBM (Case TS011227338) IBM is not supporing GMSA account for installation .
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

User Access management Enhancement - Archiving users

Some clients have hundreds of user accounts that are "inactive" accounts due to user turnover for instances that are a decade old. The accounts need to be retained so the user action/notes retain integrity, however it would be useful to have an "a...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

JMS provider "universal messaging - Software AG" to be included in the list of supported SSL/TLS JMS providers

JMS provider "universal messaging - Software AG" to be included in the list of supported SSL/TLS JMS providers
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

JMS parameters in Inflight Delivery Event Details

When the files are delivered to JMS MQ at we are able see only the JMS queue in the Inflight Event details. It would be really helpful if other JMS parameter(SenderNonEDIID, ReceiverNonEDIID & DestinationProtocolSubject) also also being captur...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Request for Close all button in SPE Config:Center

The recent hyperlinking to the Next envelope name is very useful in Config Center. However, for validating one transaction set (Ex: X12 850: ST-GS-ISA 3 envelopes). I end up opening 6 windows as shown in the attached image and 6 times I need to cl...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Remove left hand check box from IBM activity screen to prevent selecting all records and accidentally performing a resend of all files.

This would prevent a customer from mistakenly resending all records on the system if they are not careful.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Global partner name list with EDI Code

In inflight customer can track business documents but they need to give partner name or customer names for each ID and if they wont provide nothing gets populated in name section. As per my experience its repetitive work if we are having same EDI ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Duplicate and generic envelope identification while importing envelope

Currently if the envelope name is different than which is present already in config center. The import process create new envelope considering no existing envelope but in place of that process should verify existing envelope using sender, receiver...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration