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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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More predefined time periods to choose from

In the dropdown with predefined time periods in the transaction logs it would be very helpful to have more choises.These are the choises we would find the most useful: 1 hour 4 hours This day (From 12:00AM – 11.59PM, note! Not till ‘now’, the enti...
7 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Show IPs from external connection

When the product ConnectDirect recive conection from other servers like GSLB or conections from other servers and it gets for example FMH68 or other, Its interesting konws from which servers its comming this connection, because its imposible deter...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Add SASL/JAAS support to Kafka EDI Visibility

Enabling SASL/JAAS support for Kafka EDI Visibility is critical for integrating with secure enterprise environments that enforce authentication and encryption standards. Many organizations use SASL/JAAS to comply with internal security policies an...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Specific Version Map Deployment in Config Hub

Ceva is seeking an improvement on the config hub or a method to select specific versions for deployment. Example:Map Name: CEVA_WMS_SEPHORA_I_INSDES_XML_XML The map provided in CTE is version 2.2, while the Production environment operates on versi...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Alert the support team when system has not received messages for a specific window of the day

We are looking for a alert that notifies us if no messages are received in the queue. Currently, we have an SST alert for 'Message In,' but it cannot be time-bound — for example, if no messages are received between 1 AM and 2 AM then alert us.
about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Support different version of OS in cluster

As customer is planning to increase the number of nodes (e.g 50) in Sterling B2B Integrator, different OS will be adopted in near future. They request that Sterling B2B Integrator should support different version of OS in cluster.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Environment field on Client Adapters on containerized installation

Currently All ASI nodes available as environment to choose to run on nodes independently only for specific client adapters on containerized installation of B2BI. This should be made available at least on FTP, SFTP and HTTP Client adapters as in th...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Archive post processed/ Final delivery payload in the Inflight

In the archive process on SCBN, Currently we are archiving original input data and output data from the translation step. But we are expecting final output data which is delivered to partner after all post-processing steps in the flow instead of t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release