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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...
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Sterling B2B Integrator

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EDIFACT versions are not available

We are not able to below EDIFACT versions in Sterling Integrator Map editor. We have downloaded standards from 6.1.2.3 but not coming in map editor. Could you please check and advise. ATHSTS:D:10A SSDCLM:D:10A SSDRSP:D:10A Please refer PMR for ref...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

Ability to import / update XSLTs from the command line to allow better automated deployments

We have many XSLT sheets in the B2B Integrator, but would like to have the source control of these XSLTs externalised from Sterling B2B Integrator and allow deployment via our automated deployment pipelines. Currently there is no ability to import...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support for Azure SQL Server PaaS

Allow Azure SQL server platform as a service as a supported database.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enhance handling of OutOfMemory exceptions for custom designed BPs

Hi, We faced outofmemory exception & UI unresponsiveness due to large resultset returned from database. We would appreciate if SI/SFG could have controls inside it to handle such errors.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 3 Needs more information

Sterling REST API Update without prior get

Hi, We would like to update a specific user groups and accounts without changing the earlier configurations and permissions. In order to do so, we have to first GET the earlier configuration of the interested account, then add the new configuratio...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Regarding user account creation alert in SI/SFG

Hi Team, We do not have any option to get an alert or notification whenever we create a new user in Sterling Dashboard or File-Gateway, It will be good if we can have an alert in security point of you, Please let me know if you need any other info...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

SI API's should update Admin Audit table just like other SI functions

We have identified a gap in that the API's do not update the admin audit table. The example we found is in the scheduling API. Turning on or off a schedule, in the UI is logged into the table with who did it, when and what. If the API is used, no ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

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