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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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ID logging for added / deleted/ modiifed ID's in User proxy/ Functional Authorities

We need logging to be done as to what ID has been added deleted or modified in connect Direct Proxy users or functional authorities in windows Connect Direct as currently no modification can be seen of users only submitter details are found
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4

SFG integration with Mainframe SFTP server Co:Z

Hi Team, We have SFTP server on mainframe using product CO:Z. In order to send files from open system to mainframe we have to set DCB parameters. Along with we want to trigger processes on mainframe. ls /+mode=text ,lrecl=80,recfm=fb,space=cyl.5.5...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

User based data limit policy

When the same data limit policy is applied to various users, the inbound traffic byte counter is the sum of all the users included in the policy. So if one of them is reaching the limit. All the users of the policy are affected. Please, conside...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Needs more information

Support SWIFT Alliance Cloud

Customers using B2Bi to provide connectivity to SWIFT are considering options to adopt containers and even public cloud. SWIFT now offer a cloud offering (https://www.swift.com/products/alliance-cloud) which would enable a wholesale move to public...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Submitted

Adding SSCTL commands for rolling restart and restarting all agent/integration servers

Currently we do not have any commands for Rolling Restart process and agent start/stop processes in SST CLI. Current SSCTL commands are available for Uploading, listing, deploying, upgrading, downloading customizations processes along with CDT rel...
4 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Archived document should always contains both input and output data even though there are multiple processing steps.

I have noticed that, for a flow, IBM is receiving the files from the trading partner with the CII format and converting them to XML format before sending them to the customer, and finally, the customer is receiving XML files from IBM. In this flow...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Support the update to routing rules during file activity

B2Bi documentation states that Mailbox Routing Rules or FIle Gateway Routing Channels should not be updated during periods of file activity. The consequences of ignoring this are not specified in any detail in the documentation. https://www.ibm.co...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

AWS S3 adapter to do multipart upload to support files larger than 5GB

AWS S3 Adapter by default does NOT support multipart upload. So any files, as of today, which are >5GB fail to upload to S3. It fails, with "Exception occurred - Failed to commit transaction: Your proposed upload exceeds the maximum allowed siz...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Planned for future release