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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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Support Microsoft Entra ID since we are replacing the use of LDAP

We are moving away as an organization from using LDAP and replacing it with Microsoft Entra ID. Please build in support for that as an additional method of user authentication outside of SFG and B2Bi
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Reference portal/sheet for Services & Support Teams

It is an ongoing activity that new clients keep getting added to Config Hub. With the emphasis on extensive usage of Config Hub over Config Center, it would be ideal for Services and Support Teams to have the information handy, about the clients a...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Availability of maps from Config Center CTE to Config Hub

There are many new maps in Config Center (T) which are still under development and being tested by clients. These maps won't be available in Config Hub until they are moved to production. Movement to prod may still take time as clients and trading...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Inflight to flag transactions in RED for HTTPS response codes other than 200 (OK)

Currently Inflight is not checking the errored out responses from remote servers for HTTPS delivery . Files which are not validated and resposnes received are not 200 (OK) are also getting flagged as green . For example for the below file in Infli...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Inflight 0 Not under 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.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

InFlight - Add Protocol Process ID as an addable column on search page

Adding Protocol Process ID as a visible, searchable field in the results page would allow isolation of traffic by connection for easier troubleshooting. This would be beneficial for both clients and support, and seems like it should be easy to imp...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Functionality already exists

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

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...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 3 Not under 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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration