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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...
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...

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Allow custom path configuration of Extended Rule Library path in the Sterling Mapper

Currently the Sterling Mapper defaults to a path of C:\Program Files (x86)\Sterling Commerce\Map Editor\Extended Rule Library due to security policies some users are not able to place their Extended Rule Libraries to that location. The desired beh...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Preserve text as text and Booleans as Booleans

We received the following XML:<CAD05><false</CAD05> The XML is defined as a "string" in the XML Schema. We output this to JSON to a field also defined as "string" in the JSON Schema. Yet, even with TEXT() or PACKAGE() calls the outp...

Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

Easiest way to scan all BPs in B2Bi

Need ability for users to search inside the BPs for a keyword or search string. In B2Bi Dashboard has ability to search for code in XML/BPML directly from dashboard. Example I have defined one custom service in the business process and I want to k...
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

The ability for B2B Integrator to auto accept host keys

At present, we manually accept host keys whenever they are updated by external servers. We would like the B2B integrator to automatically accept these host key changes.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

multiple file uploads using myFileGateway

The myfile gateway file uploads happen one file at a time even though it allows us to select multiple files at the same time.
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Confirm Shipment accounting for PO ordering unit of measure

Idea Summary: Currently, Confirm Shipment is failing when the ASN is sent by the supplier in the PO ordering UOM and the API is not doing the conversion from the item ordering unit of measure to the item inventory unit of measure. The idea is to h...
about 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Allow SSP application to accept spaces and special characters in the username for LDAP integration

SSP application is not allowing AD username with spaces and special characters like '-'. Since our AD account has spaces and – in the username, this is not allowing us to integrate SSP with LDAP.
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

Allow Admin users to export the list of configured users, application access, and data filter details in Excel format

In the IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Hub, under Customer Company > Managed Users & Groups, all configured users for the company are listed. Currently, the system does not allow ADMIN users to export the configured user details in a spre...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release