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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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Ability to setup Node Capacity for a ship node by item type

A Retailer broadly classifies their products into two types - Soft line - Clothing, shoes etc. Big Ticket - Electronics, Appliances etc. Because the effort to pick/pack/ship these product type is different, the capacity for each ship node to handl...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Connect Direct Adapter auto recovery

Case TS003985405 was raised to report that the Sterling B2B Integrator Connect Direct Server Adapter does not auto restart if the database connection is broken This leads to file transfer failures and requires a manual restart of the adapter If th...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Add System Acknowledgment status generated off an outbound communication protocol result

In line with the current System Acknowledgment solution around sending a message back for an outbound transaction with the translation status (SYSACK1) and processing a functional Acknowledgement back from a trading partner for the corresponding o...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Expected Ship Date on Transfer Order is pushed to Monday

We are facing issue related to Store to Store transfers. Transfer Order is created for a Pickup Order.It has expected Ship Date same as the Customer PICKUP date of actual Sales Order. This issue is replicable on Thurday and sat is allowed for tran...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 10 Not under consideration

Extend the use of Perimeter Server to Object Store Client Adapter

If Perimeter Server could support connections made from the Object Store Client Adapter it would be simple for customers to enable a connection and centralizing the entire deployment on the same Sterling platform
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Correct the current functionality of the "Negative Acknowledgement Report" process & output to allow configuration that will prevent inclusion of transactions that are "Accepted with Errors" and are NOT a "Negative" Acknowledgment

The current functionality of the “Negative Acknowledgement Report” creates an exception event and “Negative Acknowledgement” email report for Acknowledgements that are actually a status of “Accepted with Errors”, which by its’ very context and des...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Improve debug capabilities on failed maps

When a map is deployed and fails translation, it is very difficult to find out the reason of the failure. A clear report on what has been the failure, as the Translation service of SterlingB2B Integrator, that includes type or error, iteration cou...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create single relationship setup which can handle multiple folders for FTP/SFTP

Business scenario : Currently our system configuration allows only one FTP/SFTP folder to be pointed under single Sterling Commerce Inflight relationship. Sometimes we get request from client for 1xFTP/SFTP setup but route different file type to r...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Develop generic XSL to convert XML to JSON for new XML validation Service

Develop a XSL to convert XML to Json convertion and deploy in XML validation service. This will help us to remove indivdiual ITX maps for those convertions.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

REST API client service content type

The RESTAPIClient service accepts only 'Application/JSON and Application/XML as valid values for Content-type. For our integration with Okta, Okta expects the content-type as ' application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. While this works fine with postman...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration