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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...
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...

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Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

To include the post processed file in the Inflight Archive. Our post processed file has the PST (our company time) on the document and is what is actually transmitted to our Trading Partner.

We will be able to access the actual document sent to our TP. This will be useful when our trading partner issues us a chargeback for being late on our transmissions. Currently, the archived data shows only the preprocessed data which has the EST.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Sponsor to delete partner users

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Exadata Database Machine with DB clusters using Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (SBI)

We use IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Version, 5.2.6.2. Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.1.0 on Oracle Exadata is in play. Our DBAs intend migrate our SBI DB from Exadata to Exadata Database Machine with DB clusters using Oracle ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Functionality already exists

Sync up Support Manager users to PEM (in addition to Customer Support users)

There seems to be an issue that's been overlooked and that impacts Delivery being able to carry out setups for Peppol R2. The issue is that the only role that's been set up in PEM is for Customer Support and there is no role for Support Manager. T...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Not under consideration

HIPAA Pack Compliance Check add additional segment terminator defined in the X12 implementation guide.

Compliance check is failing when the File Separator <FS> x'1C' is used along with carriage return and line feed. <FS><CR><LF> will cause a compliance error, <FS> without the <CR><LF> passes compliance. Com...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Update to SWIFT Pack documentation

Request that the SWIFT pack documentation be updated to include the order of message components that LMF for MT940 (and other message types) requires
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Escape Special Characters in URL for Get Request

HTTP rest client's such as Postman typically allow for special characters in the Get request, PEM HTTP requests do not.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Connect:Express for Windows: please provide a silent install (non-interactive)

We would like to automate Connect:Express for Windows instances. We could add arguments to the command line or provide a properties file to setup.exe. Upgrades could be done this way too.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Connect:Express for Z/OS : Possibility of transfers of PDE-E with RECFM=U

Actually, CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS can transfer files whitch are PDS-E except if there RECFM is UNDEFINED. It would be useful that CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS could transfer PDS-E with RECFM=U.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration