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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 support for RSA-OAEP Encryption algorithms to Sterling Integrator & File Gateway

Clients who exchange files with external partners may need RSA-OAEP encryption algorithms. Currently this is supported as a web service but not in the core functionality of the product. Lack of this is preventing more secure transfers when using S...
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Not under consideration

AS2SendSyncMDN status should be reset to 'Success' after successful http POST and positive MDN

For AS2SendSyncMDN state is being set to 'Error' when a AS2 message fails to POST to the partner URL in the first attempt. However, in the next retry interval it is being successfully posted to customer and MDN received. AS2SendSyncMDN business pr...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Switching between views clears current search filters

Keep search filter values when switching between Live and Archive logs in B2B. Keep filter filled in values when e.g. switching between 'equals' and 'contains'. This works in old Theme.
7 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Export assets in readable format such as XML or JSON

Be able to export assets (TPAs and Partner Profiles) to a xml/json file format, instead of in the binary format. This is useful for two main reasons:Extended fields can't be searched for in GUI.We use it as sort of a version history for assets in ...
7 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enable SAPSTAT document tracking direction

For client Electrolux, we received a request to change the SAPSTAT Inflight tracking direction from Outbound to Inbound. I reviewed the rules, and it is already configured as Inbound under the SAPSTAT eval ruleset SendPod Action. However, the Infl...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

FSA(File System Adaptor) creating folders Automatically

Currently when extracting a files using File System Adaptor, by default FSA automatically creates the folder if it does not exists. There should be a parameter using which I can decide if I want FSA to create the folder automatically or not.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add Source File and Destination File to the ITXA process event sent to Control Center

The Source File and Destination File is not included in the event from ITXA to Control Center. As seen here. This needs to be included in the event to see the complete picture. This can be reproduced by following the instructions in the blog. http...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Enable JMS Service to be configured under Adapter Container (AC) in addition to ASI

Our environment mostly (around 80%) consists of JMS services (queues) and we want to segregate that from our ASI, sometimes we have to reboot the entire Application (SBI) if the queues does not move. We are planning to move JMS Services to Adapter...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Expand the Smart Review code so it works for Dow data

The Smart Review feature does not work for Dow. We believe that this feature would increase the efficiency of work queue recommendation reviews, which are all manual by a Reliability Engineer and Inventory Coordinator.
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release