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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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Auto-convert User Input to Uppercase

On the call-center homepage, there is a quick search text field that allows users to search for customers by entering their details. According to the official documentation, customization of the homepage is not supported. However, we would like to...
9 months ago in Call Center 0 Submitted

Allow custom path configuration of Extended Rule Library path in the Sterling Mapper

Currently the Sterling Mapper defaults to a path of C:\Program Files (x86)\Sterling Commerce\Map Editor\Extended Rule Library due to security policies some users are not able to place their Extended Rule Libraries to that location. The desired beh...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Preserve text as text and Booleans as Booleans

We received the following XML:<CAD05><false</CAD05> The XML is defined as a "string" in the XML Schema. We output this to JSON to a field also defined as "string" in the JSON Schema. Yet, even with TEXT() or PACKAGE() calls the outp...

Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

More predefined time periods to choose from

In the dropdown with predefined time periods in the transaction logs it would be very helpful to have more choises.These are the choises we would find the most useful: 1 hour 4 hours This day (From 12:00AM – 11.59PM, note! Not till ‘now’, the enti...
9 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Code Lists Should Be Searchable

Code Lists should be searchable. It looks like this was done for PEM code lists (https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PEM-I-114) but the same functionality was not given to B2Bi. Please remedy!
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Ability to convert TEXT / HTML data to PDF in GIODE flows

We would like to have Text/HTML-to-PDF convertor (PDF Generator) available to be executed as an XProcessor. In other words, any TEXT -or- HTML payload passed to this XProcessor should be converted into PDF format. This will help customers to recei...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

InFlight PPID Business Field Filter Search

The Protocol Started >> Event Details Tab displays the PPID (Protocol Profile ID) for OB transactions in InFlight. It would be extremely useful if PPID was added to the 'Business Field' Search filter drop-down. This would allow Internal Supp...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 4 Planned for future release