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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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Support to process files from Multiple Sub-Folders in a single FTP/SFTP connection

Hi Team, We have a requirement where we need to integrate with partners having one FTP/SFTP connection and multiple subfolders. The files should be picked up or placed in different sub-folders within the same FTP/SFTP depending on the message type...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Needs more information

Add support for FASP in Sterling B2B Integrator

support for FASP protocol require in Sterling B2B Integrator
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 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...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning For example on the typing side users can have 2 setups that both have the same sender, reciever, document type and when cm_coreprocess gets back the results from the typing ser...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

MapTrace should be written to memory

Currently, there is no equivalent to the SI Map Translation Report when ITX maps are handled. The MapTrace provides similar information in that it can be used to determine the cause for failure, however it is currently only possible to generated t...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 7 Needs more information

Amazon S3 VFS should support AWS IAM Roles Anywhere Authentication

Most Amazon services support temporary credentials with certificate based authentication https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_temp_use-resources.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_aws-service...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

Check if array is empty from if (new operator)

Ability to check in a if-statement wether an array is empty or not. Existing operators as is null and is empty and exists are not working for this. Now I have to determine the length of an array en test that. Very time consuming.
3 months ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

During SPE Enveloping service ISA & GS control number not getting incremented when a file has both Good and Bad transaction sets.

Issue Description:- We have integrated ITX with ITXA and calling Envelopes from ITXA by using SPE adapter in ITX rule. In the EDI Message, If we have a good transaction set as well as bad transaction set. The envelope is not being added to the EDI...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review