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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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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 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

Restarting a Carbon Copy Branch in InFlight

We work on a lot of Business scenarios for the SCBN Customers where the main document is carbon copied and sent for parallel processing. In this case, we would see a separate entry for the main branch and separate entries for the Carbon Copied bra...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Auto-convert User Input to Uppercase

On the call-center homepage, there is a quick search text field that allows users to search for customers by entering their details. According to the official documentation, customization of the homepage is not supported. However, we would like to...
7 months ago in Call Center 0 Submitted

Azure Event Hub Native Connectivity & Service Principal Authentication

Request that IBM provide native connectivity to Microsoft Event Hub in B2bi with authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would suppo...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Specific Version Map Deployment in Config Hub

Ceva is seeking an improvement on the config hub or a method to select specific versions for deployment. Example:Map Name: CEVA_WMS_SEPHORA_I_INSDES_XML_XML The map provided in CTE is version 2.2, while the Production environment operates on versi...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Ability for customers to set up their own network reports

An added functionality in Document Tracking that allows customers to set up Network reports such as the 030 report (error report) 070 Report (Daily Processing Report) 020 Report (Transmission Report). The benefit of allowing customers to set these...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 3 Future consideration

More predefined time periods to choose from

In the dropdown with predefined time periods in the transaction logs it would be very helpful to have more choises.These are the choises we would find the most useful: 1 hour 4 hours This day (From 12:00AM – 11.59PM, note! Not till ‘now’, the enti...
7 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release