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Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration Not under consideration

Detailed information from ISERROR function

Currently when we use the ISERROR function, it just returns true of false. It would be great if we could get a more detailed response. Something like, "Failed component rule" or "Doesn't match expected type". Now I can get more detailed informatio...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio Not under consideration

Oracle Linux support for Sterling Filegateway

We need the Sterling Filegateway product compatibility matrix updated with the Oracle Linux operating system
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) Not under consideration

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Not under consideration

Support ICAP on SSP FTPS adapters

SSP's ICAP capability currently only supports Connect:Direct, SFTP, and https (myfg2.0 specifically when exposing myfilegateway). Customers require support for FTPS since many partners globally still use FTPS and will continue to do so.SSP custome...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Not under consideration

PGP Adapter : Enable support for different Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm

The OpenPGP adapter does not support all of the latest set of Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm natively. Below are the list of supported values Compression types (-COMALG) : ZLIB Encryption Algorithm (-ENCALG ) : 3DES , RIJNDAEL256...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters Not under consideration

Replacing LDAP with ISVG

In our company we are replacing LDAP with other security, for IBM Sterling also we need to replace LDAP with ISVG, I raised case for this and told ISVG is not tested with IBM Sterling SEAS product, As we need to replace LDAP with ISGV, Could you p...

Display On‑Hand Inventory and ATP at the fulfilling DC on each order line in Order Hub

In Order Hub, as a DC Associate with Order Admin, Order Manager, or System Admin privileges, I want visibility of the On‑Hand Inventory and Available‑to‑Promise (ATP) quantities at the fulfilling Distribution Center (DC) for each order line. This ...
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Not under consideration

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation Not under consideration

10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other Not under consideration