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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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Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Needs more information

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Automated Validation for Corrupted Maps During Export/Import and Deployment

Currently, there is no automated check available in IBM Sterling Integrator / ITX to detect if an ITX map gets corrupted during export or import. In many cases, a corrupted map gets deployed into higher environments without any warning, which late...
25 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Cleanly handle EBICS Requests with no post data or methods other than POST

Customers regularly receive requests to the EBICS URL which have no post data. This causes the EBICS handler BP to throw a NULL document error creating noise in the logs and meaning the BP fails. Sometimes this is just an error but often the EBICS...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Issue with chinese characters or Ukranian characters in Sterling Map Editor

Hi Team, We’ve observed that the Sterling B2Bi Map Editor Interface currently does not support the input of Chinese or Ukrainian characters. Could you please investigate whether this limitation is related to UTF-8 multi-byte character handling or ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Needs more information

Connect:Direct limitation retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories.

Connect:Direct has a known limitation when retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories. If you attempt to retrieve ( GET ) a file located in a specific subfolder within a bucket (e.g., /folder1/file), and the user does not have permission to ac...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Future consideration

Enhancement for ZIP adapter

a option to list the files present in the zip file. Using ITX map we are able to compress and decompress a zip file. But the problem is we are unsure what files will be received in the zip file. If we are able to do it via a command in zip adapter...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy to sign Login SAML request

Presently IBM Sterling Secure proxy sends a SAML request to external Idp using SSO Configuration in SSP. The Login SAML request is not adding the signature but the logout request is adding the signature in SAML request from SSP. From our security ...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release