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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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EDIFACT versions are not available

We are not able to below EDIFACT versions in Sterling Integrator Map editor. We have downloaded standards from 6.1.2.3 but not coming in map editor. Could you please check and advise. ATHSTS:D:10A SSDCLM:D:10A SSDRSP:D:10A Please refer PMR for ref...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

ADD MQ headers to GIODE JMS connector

Currently JMS connector on GIODE supports only 25 header values. We have a potential customer who sends JMS headers with 40 values which caused issues while coming into GIODE via JMS connector. IBM is not able to read additional header values. Act...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

More Robust Alerting Options

Currently using out-of-the-box functionality, we can send e-mail alerts or use sms messages to our phones based on the criteria we enter in rules/actions. E-mails are well and good, but for system outages, we prefer sms messaging. Unfortunately, o...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Only fixed email templates can be used with API sponsors/{sponsorContext}/sendemail

Right now, we have fixed email templates within PEM which we can use to link with this send-email API. Meaning if their is a new need then the only option we have to change any of the existing template and no other way. Please see that we should h...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

support of Oauth2 & OIDC in Sterling integrator

With more and more "business" moving to the cloud, it will be essential
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Add fonctionnality to re-Deliver file from Filegateway

Would it be possible to re-deliver an Filegateway transfer error directly from the Control Center web console? We alert our teams with Control Center but they cannot restart directly from Control Center. Our teams should connect à Control Center ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Ability to import / update XSLTs from the command line to allow better automated deployments

We have many XSLT sheets in the B2B Integrator, but would like to have the source control of these XSLTs externalised from Sterling B2B Integrator and allow deployment via our automated deployment pipelines. Currently there is no ability to import...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Status "Wait Queue" on SMF record

Add the Wait Queue" statuses (WC, WP, WT, and WX) in the SMF records.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

RTAM - Cannot run RTAM in multi threaded mode

Refer this PMR - https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001FdfZAAAZ/service-to-execute-on-completion-of-work-in-agent-runtime-properties-does-not-work-in-multi-threaded-mode Let me consider a scenario here Total Records - 13000 Max Rec...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration