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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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Under the equipment tab, we would like to be able to open an individual equipment and see all material spares consumed/on a BoM for that equipment.

From the equipment tab, we would like to be able to click on a piece of equipment and immediately see all the materials that are linked to and/or have been consumed by that equipment and be able to navigate to those materials in the tool.
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

"Basic Authentication" on myfilegateway 2.0 not working

On myfilegateway 2.0, the trouble we get is that the authentication failed if the basic authentication is activated (option "User authentication Required").During the authentication, the browser request credentials but there are no taken into acco...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Node Availability API to support Node Transfer

Adding support for node transfer in IV will allow a retailer who does not have SIP whom is currently supporting click and collect just from store stock to easily transition to supporting DC to Store transfer as well as Store to Store transfer when...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

URL to access BP Logs and other resources

Current B2B web interface does not allow URLs links to BP logs and other resources. There is no way to send a link that someone can click-on to view a BP log/ BP Definition/ Envelope/CodeList. (As opposed to sending them the number and requiring t...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Native PGP - Interface level compression setting

In other PGP software you can alter the compression algorithm. In the case of Native PGP, we can only change compression at a global level. Down the road, if a partner requires a certain compression algorithm other than the global one that’s set, ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Insights into the failed messages on inflight Dashborad

Priority High Ask •Insights into the failed messages on inflight Details of Ask •Provide insights into failed transactions, by providing further categorization on failed transaction . •Grouping of failures based on sender/receiver ID combination b...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 3 Future consideration

Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration