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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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Putting a limit for number of files being transferred in some time

we have decided to apply a limit on few of the partners not to dump more than 1000 files in 30 minutes. Otherwise they keep on dumping tonns of files in very short time (like 20 to 30 mins) which ends up consuming all the resources by this partner...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SFG API service to update Known Host Key

The current infrastructure in our org has close to 50k SFTP remote profiles configured and for almost 30% of them the known host key has to be renewed every 3-6 months or so. The current API services do not allow updates to be made to a known host...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Support Encrypted ZIP Files

We got a request to extract the files from an encrypted ZIP file and provide them to a shared volume. Today Active Transfer does not support decryption during ZIP extraction. It would also be useful if there is an option to specify an encryption p...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Provide alternative to GZip when downloading upgrade job logs through CCD

Many large corporations lock down employee workstations meaning new software cannot be installed and Gzip is not included it makes it very hard to view the upgrade logs without gaining access to the C:D node which somewhat defeats the object of us...
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Show date max sessions reached and allow reset

Provide mechanisms to show the date that the high watermark session count for a node was last reached under License Management or to reset the high watermark to be calculated from a set date when displaying it in License Management.
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Under review

Add Interchange Syntax Extension (ISX) from 2017 version 007040 forward to Sterling Envelope options

Walmart planned to do our first 008010 Purchase order will full UTF-8 encoding and defined release character support. We have an ITX map to support it but the Sterling Enveloping options are missing any 'include ISX' options. Why is this needed? W...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Export Wizard Command Line should have resource tag option

The export/import wizard command line does not have all the options as the GUI. The command line is used if there is a need to export large amount of objects. Doing large volume export in the GUI can lead to timeouts. In general, the command line ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Reject clearly the SSH key when unencrypted

When checking-in a new SSH user identity key, if the key is not encrypted, then SBI accepts it anyway but the key is unusable (check-out failure). If SBI requires the key to be encrypted then it should mention it clearly and it should not allow th...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

Stream data for excel adapter

According to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ITX-I-27, it is mentioned that the excel and pdf adapters can handle stream data while integrating with B2Bi or ITXA. However as per the case TS014440463, there is a limitation for excel adapter to read fro...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Functionality already exists

Add support for HTTPS Content-Type: multipart/form-data

IBM Support states that the below is unsupported by SI: curl -X POST "https://$address/api/files" \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \ -H "Authorization: 550f9407-146a-4542-bdfb-428acbd558f3" \ -F "file=@...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Needs more information