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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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Add Business Alias field in inflight for a process(Process ID)

Existing Document search in BPN has a required field "Business Alias". So along with DateTime Range ; one has to put BA to track any document flowing into the system. One has to search business alias from existing customers business alias. Also if...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Make ECHDE ciphers available for Selection in Connect Direct for IBM i

Current only RSA ciphers are available on Connect Direct for IBM in version 3.8. RSA ciphers are not considered deprecated due to ROBOT vulnerability.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Not under consideration

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Expected Delivery Date Calculation based on item and shipping node combination

We have a requirement to calculate Expected delivery date for following scenarios: 1. Website displays item's availability and Expected delivery date. Item availability information is fetched from the cache, sent by OMS in RTAM feed. OMS can fetch...
over 7 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center Support AD windows authentication method for SQL server database

To meet Industry security standards to authenticate to Enterprise Active Directory tool
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add a flag to the get partners API to have the partners custom fields included in the results

For the get partners API (pemws/sponsors/<sponsorContext>/partners/) add an optional flag which indicates that the partners' custom fields should be included in the results. The custom fields are currently returned when retrieving a single p...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Snowflake Connector Does Not Support Warehouse Parameter

The WM IO connector does not support the warehouse parameter setting for Snowflake. This was reported as an SI (SI-568223) with the R&D feedback being, "The RnD team has informed that currently the option to add a warehouse in the snowflake co...
about 1 year ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Not under consideration

WTX should not crash when a resource value is too large.

Although the limits in resource values is documented, it is still possible to enter too long a value in a mrn file. This crashes the studio when running a map, even if the faulty resource is not used by the map. The resource registry tool should a...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration