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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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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

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

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

Increase PEM Code list / Generic data field length

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Job Status >>> Job Item Summary enhancement for failed codelist due to duplicate entries

We have request from customers like VF Services to update new codelist entries (more then 100 +) for an already existing codelist . For such request Support/PER/Implementer would normally take the back up of the existing codelist (XML) and merge t...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Enhance your automated email on a VAN Failure transmission to us

We sometimes receive emails entitled: "IBM Sterling Information Broker Services (System Notification) - Message Undeliverable".The email tells us something went wrong sending a message from someone to someone. It lacks any useful information to he...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Not under consideration

Request for caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter

Hello , We have review your questions and comment with our developers in order for this result caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter, a design change would be needed in order to cache the Oracle statement handle. Currently, WTX Oracle adapter on...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Clean the map cache without restarting launcher

Today every time we need to change a map in launcher environment the launcher has to be restarted because the maps are cached there.It doesn't matter if the maps are used directly in the flow or ran by RUN function. For High Availability productio...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration