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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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10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration
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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available in ru...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS. In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost. There is the...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Extend the length of the work code field in MROIO

We require a 2 character extension on the Work Code field from 2 digits to a 4 digit field. This would allow us more characters to add a two digit year designation for material that we track under the Nonbooked inventory returned work code. This i...
24 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files.
25 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Audit Trail (4/4): access block explorer

As part of the audit trail being accessed by API (see our previous idea) or possibly through the GUI, the possibility to also retrieve for a given item id (product/EPC/document/event/facility) a complete view on the blockchain transaction (BLOCK I...
2 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Not under consideration

Audit Trail (3/4): proof of blockchain

As part of the audit trail being accessed by API (see our previous idea Audit Trail 2/4) or possibly through the GUI, the possibility to also retrieve for a given item id (product/EPC/document/event/facility) the BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION ID# associa...
2 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Not under consideration

Audit trail (1/4): accessing audit data by API

For legal / regulatory / auditing reasons, and also for testing / debugging, we need to be able to get the below information on every data (product/EPC/document/event/facility): #ID item Timestamp (date / schedule) Origin of data (eg: GUI, API, wh...
2 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Not under consideration

Find and review shared data

We use the "interested parties" feature to share products between organization. Once an item (document, product, EPC, facility, event) is shared with another organization, there is nowhere (and no API endpoints) to check what have been shared exac...
2 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Not under consideration