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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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To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Active Transfer SFTP Pre-Hooks Support

Enhancement in Active Transfer Server to support SFTP GET and PUT pre-hooks. This will enable the users to perform preparatory actions such as file validation, logging or other security checks, before the file transfer occurs. Pre-hooks to be able...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

MyFileGateway LDAP Support

Currently we have multiple MyFileGateway users that we create, delete and update on a regular basis when new customers join the organisation. The accounts that access MyFileGateway are manually created and there is a large operational overhead on ...
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Please turn on the ability to include formulas in new work queues.

We have thoroughly enjoyed the new functionality of being able to create work queues; however, 9 times out of 10, I need to include a simple formula. It can be very painstaking to work these issues through support tickets, and it would be so much ...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Add a workflow rule that is notification only

We have many stakeholders that would like to be made aware of changes to reorder values; however, they do not necessarily need to be involved in the approval process for these changes. Can we add a workflow rule that is notification only so that t...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

We need to a native support of OpenSSL encryption as we have for PGP

Banks needs different ways to enrypt files at rest, and they need native support from the sterling solution instead of using CLI adaprter or other mehods
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

DCB Information is missing in the parameters passed through the Process Data for CDSA Runtask

We have a requirement for additional parameters to be passed to the B2B Integrator CDSA through the Runtask exit to the Runtask Business Process script. Previously, parameters have been added to the data passed from the inbound Connect:Direct sess...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under 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