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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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Upload UI component - improve user experience

The user experience of the Upload button in UI dialogs could be improved greatly. Currently, not counting the browser's file-selection window, it takes 5 mouse clicks and typing in a name to upload a new file: 1) Click the Upload button in t...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add version manager for BPN rules and version change history(Salesforce Case number) as searchable field

Existing: Current BPN rules(specific to a customer) does not have any unique name(like partner name or anything unique)which troubleshooter can use to collect/trace all rules where message can pass to. Required: As we have version manager for...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

PEM Should notify sponsor when an email is bounced back.

Some Partners email servers are not receiving PEM emails and are likely bouncing them back. PEM should let the sponsors know if the Trading Partner did not receive the email.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add the HIPAA 834 318 and 277DRA transaction to the HIPAA pack

The state of New York is requiring insurance carriers to use the 834X318 and 277DRA transactions. These transactions are currently not in the HIPAA pack. This will cause compliance checking not to work and the mapping type tree is not available fo...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 5 Not under consideration

Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Parallel Executions of a Shared Activity

In the case where a maintenance activity (ex. user account password reset) is shared to a partner account, we need the ability for multiple partner admins or users on that acccount to execute the same shared activity simultaneously. Currently, PEM...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Not under consideration

SAP Adapter Configuration: Add Retry Limit and Retry time interval option

Currently, we have the option of Retry limit and time interval for FTP and SFTP protocols. As SAP Adapter in SCBN has been recently introduced, the option of retry limit and time interval is missing from Inflight setup screen. We should have this ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration