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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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Show IPs from external connection

When the product ConnectDirect recive conection from other servers like GSLB or conections from other servers and it gets for example FMH68 or other, Its interesting konws from which servers its comming this connection, because its imposible deter...
8 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 0 Submitted

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
29 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

Archive document search in inflight should have option to search by map name, envelope name, source file name and destination file name

Currently Archived document can be searched using sender, receiver id, reference number and interchange control number but does not have option to search using map name, envelope name, source file name and destination file name.We have see custome...
9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 1 Needs more information

Add SASL/JAAS support to Kafka EDI Visibility

Enabling SASL/JAAS support for Kafka EDI Visibility is critical for integrating with secure enterprise environments that enforce authentication and encryption standards. Many organizations use SASL/JAAS to comply with internal security policies an...
9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Chained order link is not always visible on Order Lines table in Order Hub

Chained order link is missing in Sales order line table, for scenario where a Return order is archived (residing in history table) and sales order is active order (residing in transaction table). It shows up fine when the return order also resides...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Add native support for connecting to Db2 using TLS 1.3 in IBM ITXA

Our ITXA instances (version 10.x) run on RHEL 8 and connect to Db2 11.5.9 databases. Security policy mandates that all encrypted channels move to TLS 1.3 by Q4 2025. Db2 has offered TLS 1.3 since 11.5.8, enabled with SSL_VERSIONS TLSV12,TLSV13 .Ho...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

Mailbox delete should mark all mailbox data for deletion

Customer urgently needs the mailbox delete options shown in the attached image to delete all data associated with the mailbox entry. Some data is being marked for deletion, but not everything. They need all data associated with that mailbox entry ...
19 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance / Usability 1 Under review

To install Connect:Direct on Kubernetes using OpenShift Restricted SCC

When operating in Connect Direct for Unix operating in Standard User Mode, the SCC allows the following capabilities and SETUID and SETGID requires Privilege Escalation. The customer request the Privilege Escalation to be false. The product should...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Under review

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Bulk ID Migrations – competitor VANS have this functionality

Bulk ID Migrations What is the problem we are trying to solve? Not having to manually migrate one id at a time when there is a large migration as it can be very time consuming. What is the impact of how it is currently working? Migrate one id at a...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 3 Planned for future release