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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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Control Center to provide a traffic summary report with total number of files sent/received by a customer/vendor/partner.

We could use a feature in Control Center where it tracks the total number of transfers by endpoint or partner. We have a business need to know how many transfers we completed with a partner for a given month.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

ITXA - SWIFT envelope creation for MT940 - Basic header block {1: field Session Number & Sequence Number are not created with a number value

Currently the Session number & Sequence Number are created with XXX and XXXXXX values which fails the Swift document.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Delivered

ITXA - SWIFT envelope creation for MT940 - header block {2: is being created with '1', however, the Delivery Monitoring field is optional and not accepted with PRIORITY = N via SWIFT Network testing

Currently the Trading Partner UI does not have an option of 2 or blank when the user selects the Normal Priority in the Swift Envelope. The Swift Network either accepts a value of 2 or blank.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered

ITXA Swift Support

Since the Swift Standards were deprecated in 2018, customer is wanting to use the SPEEnveloping service to Envelope MT940 documents and the support is not there.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered

Attachment sorting in form view from latest to earliest

In form view of items, newly added attachments are listed to the bottom of the existing list. Hence if we need to refer the related attachment to the latest workflow, needs to scroll down to the bottom. It is suggested to place the latest attachme...
about 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

Sterling 9.5 compatibility with Oracle 19C

Oracle 12C is going on extended support. Most of the latest technology stack (including OMS 10 )supports the latest version of Oracle DB. Its very important to test and certify the compatibility of OMS 9.5 with Oracle 19C.
almost 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Delivered

Include user email in Item history API

This API can be used to download and review past exports but currently does not include user email.
9 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Delivered

Can you please have the sterling b2b map editor tested and certified for win11 pro.

win11 is here. this has to happen and i am hoping it will be sooner rather than later.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Delivered

E-mail Notification Before Password for Admin Account Expires

If the password used for APIs expires partners get error messages. There should be a warning so that this can be updated before it expires so partners do not see the error.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Extensions to Compress with Connect:Direct

Our clients who are transferring from Connect:Direct are using windows.However, because of the smaller lrecl of the file being transferred, it will not be compressed for the following third specification: 1) CD z/OS to CD z/OS transfer will be in ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered