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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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HA Connectivity for Sterling Integrator to Oracle Database and Support Multiple scan address for RACs Scan

Hi Team, We would like to have a feature in sterling integrator to support HA connectivity when connect to oracle Database and also to support multiple scan address for RACs scan. Currently in sterling application we have configured the jdbc conne...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Support for ORacle 23c

A we are upgrading to Oracle 23c we use it for SFG and would like to make sure there is support for this release of Oracle DB.
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Remove/hide the IP address (other address) from the transmission copy step screen.

Request for enhancement for Batch Operations: The Batch Operations team manages file transfer for latency and errors 24x7/365. Part of this process is sending a screenshot to the client, vendor or internal team to work through getting the failures...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 4 Future consideration

AWS Adapter Enhancements

Enhancement list for AWS adapter includes the following: 1) perimeter server support 2) begin/end session functionality 3) managing credentials in SFG profile (obscuring creds requires that a script is run on the credentials before entering into S...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

SI's bpml should support XPath 3.1

When writing Xpath in bp's, the xpath supported is XPath 1.0, which was published in 1999. XPath is currently up to version 3.1.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 3 Future consideration

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

Add Rest API for managing users

We would like to be able to add/modify/delete users via the Rest API. This would let us do centralized user management.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

JsontoXml out of box service.

Currently JsonToXml service converts a Json data file to respective xml format and stores the xml file in Filesystem under <Install-dir>/bin/output.xml. Parallelly it creates a tag called <output></output> with the xml data insi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

AS2 File status updates

When trying to send a file to the customer, it shows in PCM that the file was successful. See screenshot #1. When you View Activity, it shows that the file/s were sent to AS2. See screenshot #2. However, the AS2 connection is not working. When tes...
5 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted