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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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We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

In-Flight Multi-file download button

This will effect all front-line support, mapping and any other support agents using In-flight. Right now, in order to download all files attached to a transmission, the agents have to manually download one by one. If it's possible, adding a downlo...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

One of B2BI SAAS Customer Feedback Self Service Code list Hanon Feedback - View/Edit Rights to Orchestration code list.

One of SCBN Customer supplier/customer onboarding is unable to do it themselves as they require access to make entries in the orchestration Codelist (SAT Codelist), which they currently do not have. The customer is requesting access to this codeli...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Request to upgrade public interconnect to AS2

Swedish VAN provider Stralfors uses an X.400 interconnect to connect to the Sterling VAN (A=SIL to A=GLOBALEC). The request is to upgrade to a more secure protocol (preferred AS2) and more importantly to receive instant MDN for file transmission, ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 2 Future consideration

Implement Emails for proactively monitoring API and agent's performance.

Similar to what we have on SST for MQ alerts where we can add thresholds it would be useful to have options to add alerts around API thresholds, Agents response times. This will be useful for customers going into Peak to foresee any issues of agen...
11 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

To display RuleID in Inflight Event Details

As of now, the RULE ID is displayed in Inflight event details only if the rule was set to 'Finish' action. To search for earlier files and determine which rules have been applied, we will need to access a different portal (BPN Tool). In this porta...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Remove true or false in extended field and partner group

Hi, in the extended fields there is partner group who is not consistent. When you not choose a field then it's empty, but if you choose and regret it you have to fill in true or false..
7 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Database for IV

Need a read only database to connect to that shows all supply and demand records, quantities, ship nodes, sourceTs, segment info, etc. from IV. This will help with data cleanup and visibility. We have no way of knowing about stale data unless we q...
11 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

Query that can provide a list of mailboxes that are not a part of any delete services

This report would provide us insight on mailboxes that need to be added to delete services. During onboards, there could be mistakes on adding mailboxes to delete services, and that way we know to update them.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted