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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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SFTP Protocol Strict Host Key = 0

Whirlpool is requesting IBM SCBN be able to configure their SFTP connection without strict host key requirement. This is part of their High Availability Architecture plan. All of their vendors except IBM is able to meet this requirement.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
about 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Deferred Processing based on number of documents in a file

e have implemented only the time based deferred processing on SCBN with the minimum timeframe of 180 sec and it seems Electrolux now wants us to implement the batching on the basis of the number of documents as well which is not possible to achiev...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 5 Not under consideration

Add option in Config Centre to export codelist data in Excel (xls) format.

Config Center has the option to export codelist data either in XML format or JSON format but not in XLS (Excel). We have request from high volume SCBN customers to provide the codelist data from CTE/Production in excel (xls format) as it would hel...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Functionality already exists

RestAPI support for Token Authentication rather than Basic Authentication

Looking for a future service availability to support Token Authentication, either with RestAPI or new one. As per my conversation with an IBM engineer on another troubleshooting call; support of Token Authentication by RestAPI is planned in future...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Open MCS.CLIST until either TCP or SNA support available

NDM modify commands will fail before local node sign on complete either via TCP or SNA, so open MCS.CLIST until either TCP or SNA support available is more appropriate especially for users who depend on modify command to monitor NDM.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include API monitoring/output in CD Logs

API connects to the CD product can be for File Transfer submissions or stat gathering for another use such as log checks. These API have a max value configurable on the local node entry in CD netmap file but currently there is no logging of API ac...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Provisioner activities should acknowledge parent PEM activities on failures

The provisioner activities should send acknowledgement to parent PEM activities on failures, this is must needed else the Parent activity doesn't know what happened to the triggered provisioner activities. The Sponsor admins will be not notified a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox.

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox. Currently, customers need to send a separate tickle for each file that resides in the on-prem B2Bi mailbox. This is inefficient and would reduce overh...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration