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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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Enhance Search Abilities for InFlight Archive

It is EXTREMELY difficult to find documents in InFlight Archive because there are such limited search options. When looking for data, I most often search by envelope name or map name. Neither of those options are available. We also have many partn...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Populate DestinationFilename in Inflight view for FINISH flows

The DestinationFilenames are populated only for the flows those have delivery rule and not for the one thats are STOPPED/FINISH in GIODE. During System Testing, it will be helpful to check the DestinationFile name where ususally flows are FINISHED...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Adding Email Body via BPN ST tool

There are lot of request in Electrolux project for email flows where we need to deliver the output file as attachment in email and also send email body with some message to the trading partners. Currently, we use ITX map and Attachment Macro to ac...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Management of OFTP2 Certificates = Time Consuming with SBI

On SBI, OFTP2 management is time consomming.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Internal system required certificates prevention

We received the alert for expired certificate in email. We mistakenly removed the expired document encryption cert doccrypto2. After we worked with the support and we found out this cert is required and even it is expired. Our problem is if this i...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Enable CRL Cache for CRL Check using the Distribution Points

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Future consideration

Implement Exponential Retry Configuration for SFTP Connections

Concept: Introduce a feature that allows users to define exponential backoff retry policies for SFTP connection attempts. This means that if an initial connection fails, the system will automatically retry the connection after a short delay. If th...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Planned for future release

Integrate a feature to move files to an archive directory through the SFTP protocol layer, without needing to set up a flow

Integrate a feature to move files to an archive directory directly through the SFTP protocol layer, without needing to set up a flow
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Planned for future release

More columns in transaction view

It would be helpful when monitoring to be able to choose more columns than 10.
10 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Not under consideration

Saving preferences on transaction view

Possibility to save preferences such as: Keeping columns in the view Number of transactions on a page Number of attributes in attribute view As it is now, it all resets everytime the log is left and revisited.
10 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration