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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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Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...

Sterling B2B Integrator support for Postgres open source database

We are being asked to move to Postgres open-source database for cost efficiencies and would like IBM Sterling Integrator to support both Postgres open-source database in an AWS cloud environment and on an on-premise deployment of Postgres. The rea...

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...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

SFTP Client GET Service - input parameter to set a max number of files processed

We are using the operation SFTPClientGet and the parameter RemoteFilePattern to do a multiple get. See the below example. We would like to have an input parameter allowing us to set a maximum number of files processed during one sftp get opera...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

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.
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Logging user activity - to track user's activity while they navigate on dashboard

As a part of business requirement, we need to log activities related to all users in Sterling Integrator. If a user who is not allowed to view a specific BP data, that should be logged, which can be useful for auditing purpose.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Only specific user should have access to specific BP Primary document and Instance Data

We have a business scenario, where for security reasons we want only allowed user(s) to have access to a specific BP flow execution. All users / superusers , who are not allowed to view this data, should not be able to view the Primary Document / ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SSP rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SSP making it very difficu...
10 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

To display RuleID in Inflight Event Details

As of now, the RULE ID is displayed in Inflight event details only if the rule was set to 'Finish' action. To search for earlier files and determine which rules have been applied, we will need to access a different portal (BPN Tool). In this porta...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration