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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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Reporting Functionality for Rolled Out Activities

In order to succeed in Campaign Management this is a must have item. There needs to be a report with all partners who have activities rolled out to them with the current status. I have attached an example of what fields would need to be included, ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Delivered

connect direct windows 6.1 support MQ SQL SERVER 2019

I know that C:D Windows 6.0, 6.2 support MSSQL server2019. However, the web page still showing C:D Windows 6.1 only support MS SQL SERVER 2016. May I know C:D Windows 6.1 can support MS SQL Server 2019?

Please add VDA enveloping standards to Config Center for both CTE and PROD

Please add VDA enveloping standards to Config Center for both CTE and PROD. We have a potential customer who are configured on SPE02/Config Center. They also have VDA Partners. Please include VDA standards with this request. Thank you.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Delivered

Cooperative Listener directory permissions

When Launcher starts in cooperative listener mode on RHEL servers a hidden directory is created under each watch point. That dir is named .WTX_<pid>_<hostname>. Each coop listener will have its own one of these hidden dirs. The dirs ar...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

Global Mailbox should support MQ SSL options during installation

Currently, Global Mailbox only supports installation against MQ servers which use unencrypted communications, and username+password authentication. After installation, the product supports re-configuring using TLS connections and certificate based...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Delivered

Include Time Limit For Dirty Node

We would like to be able to add a time limit to a dirty node instead of waiting on incoming units. For example, if the node is marked as dirty, only leave it marked dirty for 24 hours.
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 4 Delivered

Metrics in IV to understand the exposure rates

Ability to have insights into how much Inventory we are exposing for Demand and the reasons behind blocking by Dirty Node Vs Safety Stock vs Demand…etc., This information is critical for business and operations team. The below metrics are needed t...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

B2Bi should support the use of credentials from AWS EC2 instance profiles to enable access to AWS S3 buckets

B2B Integrator 6.0.1 provides an adapter for AWS S3. This adapter requires the use of AWS access keys (awss3.accesskey & awss3.secretkey) for access to S3 buckets. This is not a practical approach for automated batch processes since the AWS ac...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Improve performance on SORTUP and SORTDOWN functions

Performance on functions SORTUP and SORTDOWN is dramatically catastrophic when there are "lots" of data to sort (25 min to sort 1 000 000 of numbers). See test case attached. Improving performance of those functions is more that required. New sort...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

SSP - add support for securing MQ connections

In order to monitor SSP via Control Center, MQ has to be used. SSP and ICC do not support secure connections to MQ. All our connections have to use SSL, therefore we cannot monitor SSP.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Delivered