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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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Enhanced messaging for various message states within job log to allow automation

Today - the only way to verify message processing is to log into Connect:Direct and check the current status. We would like it when messages go into the various states (specifically a wait state) for a message to put but out to the started task jo...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

XML to EDI outbound data does not inlcude reference to ST envelope within InFlight

Whether source format is FLAT file or XML file, we should always display ST envelope details in inflight (if we can find a match during enveloping service). In a nXML_TO_EDI flow, XML flow uses typing service where a typing map is executed (instea...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Add support for JN Union HSM devices

This will allow secure use of the platform in China.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Not under consideration

PEM Should notify sponsor when an email is bounced back.

Some Partners email servers are not receiving PEM emails and are likely bouncing them back. PEM should let the sponsors know if the Trading Partner did not receive the email.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Expected Ship Date on Transfer Order is pushed to Monday

We are facing issue related to Store to Store transfers. Transfer Order is created for a Pickup Order.It has expected Ship Date same as the Customer PICKUP date of actual Sales Order. This issue is replicable on Thurday and sat is allowed for tran...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 10 Not under consideration

Include TAIWAN FISC RTGS maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to incude support for TAIWAN FISC R...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Option to search existing AS2 relationship based on AS2 ID under Legacy Inflight

Currently, We don't have an option to search for an existing AS2 relationship based on AS2 sender/receiver ID. We only have an option to search based on PPID or URL contains option. It will be useful if we have an option to search based on AS2 ID's.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for getCanonicalHostName() method in Java

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for some Windows enviroments.Installer calls getCanonicalHostName() method in Java ,and receive IP address instead of the server hostname for some security or settings.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Correct the current functionality of the "Negative Acknowledgement Report" process & output to allow configuration that will prevent inclusion of transactions that are "Accepted with Errors" and are NOT a "Negative" Acknowledgment

The current functionality of the “Negative Acknowledgement Report” creates an exception event and “Negative Acknowledgement” email report for Acknowledgements that are actually a status of “Accepted with Errors”, which by its’ very context and des...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration