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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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SSH key based authentication using LDAP

SSH Key based authentication with LDAP is not supported in B2BI, and also with SEAS integration. Even though SEAS has SSH Key support with LDAP, SEAS integration APIs with B2BI does not have support for sending SSH Key. During a sftp authenticati...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Support Encrypted ZIP Files

We got a request to extract the files from an encrypted ZIP file and provide them to a shared volume. Today Active Transfer does not support decryption during ZIP extraction. It would also be useful if there is an option to specify an encryption p...
about 2 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Provide alternative to GZip when downloading upgrade job logs through CCD

Many large corporations lock down employee workstations meaning new software cannot be installed and Gzip is not included it makes it very hard to view the upgrade logs without gaining access to the C:D node which somewhat defeats the object of us...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Show date max sessions reached and allow reset

Provide mechanisms to show the date that the high watermark session count for a node was last reached under License Management or to reset the high watermark to be calculated from a set date when displaying it in License Management.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments,

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 5 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

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Add Interchange Syntax Extension (ISX) from 2017 version 007040 forward to Sterling Envelope options

Walmart planned to do our first 008010 Purchase order will full UTF-8 encoding and defined release character support. We have an ITX map to support it but the Sterling Enveloping options are missing any 'include ISX' options. Why is this needed? W...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

AWS S3 service to look specific folder files in a Bucket

In latest Sterling Integrator AWS S3 service is returning a list of files from all folders in a bucket, there is no option to look for a specific folder files . It would really help customer if IBM considers this enhancement request and get it dev...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 8 Future consideration