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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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SFG Utlization and Consumption KPI's

We are trying to explore consumption KPI's of the environment. At a high level, how to obtain correlation between file transfers volume/size with over all resources consumption ? - Build trend visualizations showing weekly consumption - cpu/memory...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Add capability to hard fail SSL error processes

When an SSL handshake error occurs, the process is placed in HO ER status. This does not trigger the same error alerts as file transfer failures when the process is pushed into HO ER status. If the same alert triggering would occur from session se...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Schedule Server to Stop and Start through SST

Currently the SST allows to set the scheduling of the server to either Trigger at a certain time or to Start and Stop within the 24 hours. We would need the ability to schedule the Data Extract Server to be stopped during the weekily DB Reorg bein...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

SSO SAML assertion and OIDC support and MFA implementation

SAML assertion and OIDC protocols implemented in IBM B2Bi so we can switch from use of LDAP to SSO setup for user authentication. Also we need to implement MFA for user authentication since the application is approved for use with restricted file ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Protect SFG for event flood caused by large volume GET requests of very small fiels

When the File Gateway is hit by a very high amount of GET requests to download small files will cause an event flood. As these events are tracked in the visibility db, this may cause the system to "hang" - all threads blocked - as the visibility d...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

Need to include velocity code in all cycle count pubsub messages

We need an inclusion of velocity code in all Pubsub messages i.e,countRequestCreated,countRequestCompleted,countTasksCreated,countTasksAssigned,varianceApproved,inventoryAdjustment(on variance approval for cycle count).Since we are trying to custo...
about 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Other 3 Future consideration

Add verification on security level of signatureMethod/digestMethod

On XML Digital Signature service, you can choose which signature and digest method to use when signing; http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256 https://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha1 However, when using the service in verify mo...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

To improve the messaging within MyFileGateway for the end user/customer

A user/customer uploaded a file in MFG and the file was uploaded when checking the Arrived File tab a message stating The system has not processed this file. Check back later and view the processing status using the file activity tab. This was the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

More Robust Alerting Options

Currently using out-of-the-box functionality, we can send e-mail alerts or use sms messages to our phones based on the criteria we enter in rules/actions. E-mails are well and good, but for system outages, we prefer sms messaging. Unfortunately, o...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration