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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...
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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...
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HTTP access log with URL, status code, IP's, user agent string, etc.

Security frequently audits to review the HTTP access logs for web server of Sterling Application (external facing apps). Security expect the HTTP access log to reflect the URL, status code, IP's, user agent string, etc. Can you suggest where to tr...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

E-Invoice: Storing Failed Delivery documents when Archiving the invoice in Inflight

There is a legal requirement to also keep failed delivery documents from failed invoices in Italy. Right now when a failed invoice reaches 30 days old then it gets archived. When archived all events + attachments in the events get removed so there...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Address $$UPDATE Deficiencies

We experienced an issue with C:D 6.1 on z/OS where we performed a $$UPDATE function on a netmap entry and the node became unable to accept inbound connections. We were advised by CD support that there is an obscure recommendation in the documentat...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Customised monitoring dashboard views

The current SST monitoring dashboards are limited to filtering on queues per session - there is no way to save a view or create a dedicated link to quickly access the same view again (user setting not persisted). Where technical members may reacti...
7 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Allow Connect Direct processes "Waiting on I/O" to stop consuming a Thread (similar to how SFTP operates)

In order to expand usage of Connect Direct inside B2Bi, Connect Direct processes need to behave similar to other protocols. Connect Direct consumes an entire Thread (queue watcher) the entire time a Connect Direct transfer is occurring. With other...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Observability Dashboard for Synchronization Jobs Performance

Monitoring Dashboard of IV processes. Supply, Demand, Reservation Async Jobs Performance Dashboard with KPIs like Average Processing Time, Max on Daily/Weekly/Monthly Periods, and Adherence to SLAs.For example, avg time to complete Supply Sync cal...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Restarting a flow where we want a subset that originally tracked red to re-process while ignoring others that originally tracked green.

SCBN Customers send batch outbound files for multiple Partners and some times due to Tranlsation, Configuration or System Outages some of the transactions impacted and failed in the batch and once the issue resolved and we or Customer want to rest...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting capabilities not available

Monitoring: The only way to investigate the status/traffic of a specific connection is accessing the Event and Audit log files located in the SSP server. This has a deep impact on the usability of the product making the operation activities of Sup...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Report to pull last accessed/last login time for all partners

There seems to be a lack of reporting on historical activity of users/partners in Sterling to be able to determine if an account is active and when it was last active. I'm currently trying to pull a last login/last accessed timestamp for each user...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Sterling Control Center does not show the process number of a Sterling Integrator business process

Sterling Control Center does not display the Connect:Direct process numbers from a Sterling Integrator business process going through the CDSA. This is because the process number is actually not passed from Sterling Integrator to Control Center. T...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

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