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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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ITX - Allow MapTrace to continue after first error

Currently, the MapTrace halts/stops after the first error is encountered. This makes debugging issues and correcting input data difficult, as only one error can be fixed at a time, then the file needs to be re-run to check if there are any other f...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 4 Needs more information

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Sterling API Gateway Enablement: Enable Customer Company for ‘connections’ option through SCBN Hub

When a customer company name is given Config Hub access, only the self-service of Codelist and map gets enabled. To setup API Gateway configuration, the development team has to manually run an API to get the Connection parameter enabled in Config ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 3 Not under consideration

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Expand PCM correlation to allow bigger datasets of key and value pairs

PEM Standard / Partner Community Manager Correlation requirements Customer has a use case where they will be processing large files in B2B via PCM and using ITX for translation. Translation will be outputting correlation data. The high-water mark ...
7 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Export of Supply Audit Table

Is there an approach that would allow a user to get an audit history for all Items for a specific Tenant/Enterprise and receive the data in a format that can be converted to a CSV file. The intent is to have a business user be able to evaluate all...
10 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

Generate longfile name for Connect:Direct transfers in log

We want to utilize transfer logs generated in syslog/task log to do some automation reporting and alerting. However NDM longfile name which reported in SMF type FI isn't written to syslog so we can't get full pictures for file transfers between un...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Can you please have the sterling b2b map editor tested and certified for win11 pro.

win11 is here. this has to happen and i am hoping it will be sooner rather than later.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release

Ensure failover detection ping from SSP PS can be recognized as such in B2B

These pings are causing literally thousands of errors in our C:D logs on B2B every hour - as the C:D server adapter can see the pings hitting the port but recognizes that they are not valid C:D sessions. A recent health check performed by IBM/Sabr...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Automation of certificate replacement in SSP and SI

As we are replacing SSL certificates more often and validity lengths are shortening we will have to do more certification replacements. I would like a way to automate the certificate replacement within SI and SSP. I would need an automated or scri...
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration