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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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Increased character limit of Context Data

Currently, Context Data can only contain 10,281 characters. Some requirements and design require more information to be stored in Context Data. Alternate Solution is to store and retrieve from GenericData Configuration, but it complicates the acti...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Store more than 10 data fields

Often we have scenarios where SFG Solution uses external database tables. These tables can have any number of columns. When PEM activities are customized to collect data from sponsor/partner for the table and if the number of columns is more than ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Extra Cols in Table on UI Dialog

Table on UI Dialogs can have a max of 10 columns. Sometimes more than 10 columns are required to collect data from sponsors/partners. Please extend the number of max columns a table can have.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

FTPS OB Pull/IB Push/IB Pull

FTPS OOTB activity - Entry validation for Production provisioning tasks (Prov IB Pull Production, Prov IB Push Production, Prov OB Pull Production) reference API Get call at beginning of activity to check configuration status. During the activity ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 0 Is a defect

FTPS OB Push Production Entry Validation

Out of the Box FTPS Activity - Entry validation for O/B Push Production provisioning only checks that entry validation for dialog "O/B Push Production" is met. The entry validation should match the entry validation used for other connection direct...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 0 Is a defect

Allow Workflow to Continue After API has Failed

When creating an API dialog there should be an option to continue workflow even when the API fails. Preferably, it would have conditions to continue based upon what error is received.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Planned for future release

We need a Tool to Identify the Cause of HIPAA X12 Compliance Exceptions

Tool to Identify the Cause of HIPAA X12 Compliance Exceptions NASCO routinely receives very large HIPAA X12 transmissions from their business / trading partners. (Very large meaning millions of segments and tens of thousands of transactions.) Only...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

Secure Plus Error Message Enhancement

Is there any way to capture the SNODE name for which the SSL Handshake failure occurring with the error message CAPA202E, since the affected SNODE name is not present in the same line? We are able to find SVTM055I message in the next line but it's...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Managed AS2

Trying to make a new connection with Tracelink in order to transfer serial# information for drug products to comply with Pharmaceutical Industry Serialization requirements.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

ICC Database tables which hold summarized data can be partitioned

Encountering performance issues with control center due to having a requirement for a large amount summary data to be available. Given that some of the performance issue are due to long running queries, if the tables holding this data were partiti...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists