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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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Support for ORacle 23c

A we are upgrading to Oracle 23c we use it for SFG and would like to make sure there is support for this release of Oracle DB.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Restrict user access to Monitoring section

We have a monitoring team that should not have access to deployment or any section which will make any changes in the environment. Their job is to only monitor the environment. It would be helpful if we could restrict their access to Monitoring ta...
4 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

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-...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Enable New ProcessingFlags 4/5/6 to support complex implementations

We are currently supporting ProcessingFlags 1/2/3 only in GIODE. These processing flags are preserved and passed to down stream flows (from parent to child processes). They are available in rule conditions as well to decide data routing. We would ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Planned for future release

Enhanced control over the "reviewed" radio button in the B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI enables users to view the current status of inbound and outbound file processing to target systems. As part of managing a production live service, we have encountered some issues whereby files have been incorrectly ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Ability to HOLD data at IBM during customer's maintenance window and RELEASE it after maintenance (SAP ALE Connections)

Couple of protocols like CD allows IBM to HOLD inbound data during customer's maintenance/outage window and release it when their system is back to normal. We don't have similar "HOLD" mechanism with other protocols like SAP ALE adapter. For Proto...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Enable option to view the code-list entries on Config Hub user interface

Can you please check and add an option where we can view the code-list entries directly on config hub screen instead of downloading csv file or checkout and quick edit options. we have this option on Config Center where we can view the code-list e...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

JMS Information to be visible and searchable in Inflight

Description JMS Sender, JMS Receiver, JMS MessageTypes and JMS MessageIDs to be made available as search parameters on Inflight Inbound: Successfully delivered JMS message ID:414d5120514d2e42504e543120202020e91f6e6665bc4c2d to TST.BPN.TO.CEVWPJMSS...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Enhance B2B Mail Client Adapter to support IMAP with OAuth 2.0 to connect gmail for Google workspace account

Google Workspace accounts will no longer support less secure apps, third-party apps or devices that ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. to access apps, you must use OAuth2
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Create new field called Change Request ID and then add to New Trend upload

Creation of an new standard field for Change Request ID (CRID), then including the field is the template for Trend import. Currently restricted in regards to fields available to import within New Trend import (i.e. Issue Size, Business Impact and ...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release