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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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Add MFA capability when using the Webclient.

Provide an option to configure Webclient interface with MFA. login page to include MFA such as email, sms, Google Auth, etc.
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Update db_optimization_tool.sh to support Oracle and other DB Vendors

In the past IBM provided the db_optimization_tool.sh script with B2B Integrator to facilitate index reorgs with MySQL DBs. Several companies such as my own will only implement vendor scripts for index reorgs. Can IBM update that script and supply it.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

DTXDS APIs for the Launcher

We are currently trying to automate a bit our software lifecycle management and we would like to automate the compilation and deployment of maps on our Linux system. We are using Azure pipeline for this automatization and we would like to have a w...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

I would like to be able to allow a User with developer acl on the webmethods integration server to change the settings of the JDBC Adapter.

I would like to be able to allow a User with developer acl on the webmethods integration server to change the settings of the JDBC Adapter. The developer has Developer ACL. However, there are times when you need to change the settings of JDBC Conn...
3 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

The ability to monitor the time frame when no activity has happened.

There are times when Sterling File Gateway gets stuck and stops processing files but no alerts are generated etc. I would like to be able to monitor for no activity and when no activity has been detected in X time to be able to raise and alert/snm...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Google Drive Integration Adapter Service

To enable Sterling Integrator with the capabilities to handle Google Drive services using the out of box Sterling Adapter Services. Which enables to track, manage and handle the Google drive integration easier like other protocol specific file tra...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Future consideration

CyberArk AAM Integration

We use CyberarkAAM with CCP to manage system to system logins, and have a requirement for rotating passwords. Currently no where in SBI (properties files, sandbox, partner setups, etc) has the ability to setup outbound connections with rotating pa...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Add custom filtering to the advanced filter option in the Historical Information Widget

Currently the tables within the tabs of the Historical Information Widget (form views) are able to be sorted but the advance filter option is very limited to only a date range or a (seemingly) random single data point. In my case the data point av...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Rejecting EDI 270 Transaction - Custom Type 7 Business Rule not working as expected in ITXA

Various type of Custom Type 7 Business Rules are not working when trying to validate various segments and elements.
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review