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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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Dashboard should give the possibility in the key creation to add ECDSA keys

Currently when creating SSH keys via the SBI dashboard ( Trading partner --> SSH --> Use Identity key --> create --> New user key ), only RSA and DSA keys encryption can be chosen. But in the real world, companies require much higher a...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

"auto-refresh" browser functionality on myFileGateway 2.0

Recently, we observed that when downloading a file through myFileGateway, the file is still displayed by the browser and we must refresh the page to don't see the file anymore in the folder, The case TS006115503 inform us that SI doesn't have this...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Need a list of schedule timing for all active scheduled Business Process

We need a list of reporting consist of exact schedule for all active Business Process Schedule, currently need to look one by one, we have about 3000 Business Process therefore its hard to kept at looking one by one BP schedule for manageability
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Bulk Edit from File if errored should display more details

When the file used in bulk edit from file throws error, it will be good to have more details on the error like- no unique match found for some specific rows or missing items etc. Currently, we have to try various scenarios to troubleshoot the prob...
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

AES-256 encryption for .bin file creation

we understand that when a .bin file is created via lcu.jar it is encrypted with AES-128. We would like to see this encryption increased to AES-256 to satisfy our Security requirements.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Ad Hoc Report Functionality

In version 6.1.3 and earlier when a report is run, the user has the option to keep/download in different versions such as pdf, xls, csv, etc and to email the report. However, in version 6.2, this ad hoc functionality has been removed. While an ad ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Add Data Delay and Outage Notifications to InFlight application

Currently client notifications for Data Delays or Communication Outages are provided via a notification system that sends emails or voice messages to a configured distribution list for each account. It would be helpful if these notifications could...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release