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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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SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen.

Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen. The MBER will show expired mailbags - mailbags that haven't been acknowledged by another VAN within the time window. Van Admin then contacts the other VAN to confirm if they received and processed t...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 5 Needs more information

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. ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Out of box utility script to run on Sterling nodes to fetch CD adapters certificates for validation to make sure change is reflected on all cluster nodes to avoid impact to customers traffic

We had a critical incident in our production system (Case TS018513193 Critical issue - All Banks are not able to connect B2Bi Sterling) because of renewed CD certificate was not reflected across all customer nodes of B2Bi.All Banks are not able to...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Enable FTP, SFTP 1.0, and HTTP client adapters to support all asi nodes

Customer is planning to use horizontal pod autoscaling in B2BI/SFG such that if the CPU usage gets too high on ASI node one, it will automatically scale out another. The issues is not all client adapters support running on "all ASI nodes". They re...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

Ability to download and have additional filters in the References tab

I find that the References tab is very useful, but I need to be able to download to Excel so that I can do proper analysis. Additionally, I would appreciate the ability to have additional filters similar to what I have on the Items tab (ex: Distin...
9 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Needs more information

Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management for Sterling B2B Integrator in Alignment with Zero Trust Architecture

Hi, As organizations continue progressing toward Zero Trust Architecture, the importance of secure and streamlined certificate management becomes increasingly critical. We request for enhancement to B2B Certificate management. Current Challenge:To...

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Container deployment or upgrade may not work in shared environments

There's been a few cases pointed out where the B2BI/SFG example container scripts for creating SCCs, Cluster Roles, Rolebindings, etc do not work in shared environments. This is interfering with deployments and upgrades in shared environments. In ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0

Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR)

Also See: RFI # 2776: Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR) | X12 Add a logic to Hipaa compliance check, such that diagnosis pointer used in SV107 in 837P PACDR, and SV311 in 837D PACDR, does NOT exceed the number of diag codes used in HI segment.
18 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Submitted

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
19 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted