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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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GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

User disable option in Control Center Monitor

Dear Team, Greetings of the day!! Requesting to add the user disable feature so that when an user who has not logged in since last one month will be disable by the admin for security reasons. We have user update,edit,delete features in version 6.3...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Allow optional ODBC connection strings to allow DB connection encryption

My Database team would like to have all connections to the database encrypted, preferably at the application level, using the below: encrypt=true;TrustServerCertificate=false; It is currently not possible to supply this information using the DB Wi...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Displaying all Map names in inflight

inflight always shows only one map name (Translation map) even though there are multiple maps involved in the flow. In large scale projects, where is the flow is complex, we tend to use more maps to satisfy the requirements of the Customer/Partner...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Select multiple trust cert with search functionality

In SSP Dashboard, Netmap > Inbound Node[HTTP based protocol] > Security>CA Certificates/Trusted Root While selecting multiple certificates it becomes very difficult to select multiple cert and find to unselect certificate. It would be con...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Workflow Rules download facility

Currently workflow master approval table maintained in MROIO is not visible to users and cannot download the table, Every time user has to approach to IBM to provide the excel download. It is suggested to provide the master approval table visible ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Functionality already exists

EBICS APIs for Server Configurations

APIs for all EBICS server configurations, like partner, user, offer and contract. New EBICS functionalities, like BTF Services and Custom Order Services, are being delivered with their corresponding API's. However, there are no API's yet for exist...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

add -L parameter to RUN()

Looks like the -L parameter is currently only available in Command Server on Non-Windows platforms. When I try to call RUN("submap", "-L") in a map, I only get a generic error message ("Error detected in running map, exiting.") Our migration from ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow System Certificates to work the same as CA Certificate groups

Currently when we generate a new System Certificate and want to install it to our HTTP Server Adapters, we need to take our environment down and schedule/coordinate the change of the certificates with all our AS2 customers. Not an easy task given ...
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 8 Future consideration

sftp client list service should have configurable parameter to list the number of files.

In certain customer sites, The file count that need to be picked up using sftp client services range from 1 to 100,000 from partner's sftp server. When we use the sftp client list service to list the files (when the file count is at max range) the...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration