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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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Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

Create alert if the adapters do not come up after SI server comes back up.

It is critical for us when the SI app server comes up after being down or after patching to know if the required MQ adapters, Http server and Http Client adapters come up as expected. We want to be alerted if the MQ adapters and HTTP Server and HT...
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Codesets caching in hipaa healthcare pack

We want some kind of caching mechanism in the hipaa healthcare pack, so instead of calling the database (for SNIP 5 rules) each time the map is called, it should cache the codeset values from DB.
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Under review

Support Microsoft Entra ID since we are replacing the use of LDAP

We are moving away as an organization from using LDAP and replacing it with Microsoft Entra ID. Please build in support for that as an additional method of user authentication outside of SFG and B2Bi
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Enablement of SSH Certificates

Sterling B2B leverages SSH Keys for SFTP file transfers and OpenSSH to faciliate this. I would like to see it enable the ability to use SSH Certificates. SSH Certificates provide significant increase in security as opposed to SSH keys.
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Under review

Update or Modification of Partner Configuration to the existing role out if incase of any failure

We are having issue deleting the partner ID from PEM.Below are the details:After completing the onboarding process, both PartnerName and PartnerId are generated and recorded in the Partner Information task. If a system failure occurs during the in...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Under review

Remote profile routing channel 'connection

When using a remote profile, to route a file to a remote server using ssh keys. It would be great to allow something that would take a routing channel name then the producer mailbox path and allow parsing so it can match the directory in the remot...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Add support to allow for an Azure Service Bus Queue to be used to trigger a Launcher / Flow

Need support to allow a new message on a ASB queue to trigger a Launcher or Flow. Currently this is not support. We can only Read / write to a ASB Queue, we can not Listen.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Under review

Enhance the MQ Adaptor for Launcher / Flow Server to use MQ GEt with CallBack vs the constant pooling of the Queue

Currently the ITX MQ Adaptor is constantly Pooling the MQ Queue (observed via MQ API Trace) for new messages based on a default 2 sec polling interval in the dtx.ini. Would like to see an option to do a unlimited MQ GET wait with the MQ Callback A...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Under review