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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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Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Need for a B2B Integrator MONITORING  REST API

Need for a B2B Integrator REST API to return the following counts: *Number of Active, Halted, Waiting, Interrupted BPs. * Database usage KPIs : used space and free space. * Queue Depth. * Heap usage
about 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Include Group Sender / Group Receiver ID's as configurable columns in Standard InFlight Reports

Inbound/outbound data activity and trading partner summary reports in InFlight portals tracks at Interchange level (ISA or UNB level) only. We would like to see Group ID's (GS or UNG) available in InFlight UI so that user can select those columns ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Include ExtraInfo 1, 2 & 3 as configurable columns in Standard InFlight Activity Reports

We would like to see an option in InFlight UI to select ExtraInfo 1, 2 & 3 as configurable columns in InFlight activity reports
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Add support for FASP in Sterling B2B Integrator

support for FASP protocol require in Sterling B2B Integrator
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Future consideration

Bulk export maps from ConfigHub/ConfigCenter

Currently we dont have any option to export all maps (.mxl) from ConfigHub or Config Center. It is a TDS task to support and implementations teams to download all the maps one by one. By implementation this we can save a lot of time. Now a days cu...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Planned for future release

Require MEIG to perform certificate matching on unique values

In a scenario where multiple CA certificates having the same value for the DN Subject parameter exist in the database, MEIG can retrieve the wrong CA certificate and cause a valid Trading Partner certificate to incorrectly be interpreted as invali...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

modify the path of the objectstore logs

The main problem is that the logs are stored in the /home of the user executing a transmission that sends files to the cloud (AWS, COS, GC). On Linux servers, if we have an owner user of the ConnectDirect product, we do not have permissions to vie...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release