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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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Need ITXA to be tested and certified with Oracle RAC and DB2 Purescale and Document the instructions for setting this up

This will enable customers to setup their Oracle in a Clustered environment with High Availability and Failover capabilities. Oher Products like Sterling B2B Integrator have documented and tested this with their Product which ITXA integrates with....
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

Replication Statistics For Global Mailbox

Global Mailbox should be able to out-of-the-box provide specific details on replication between DCs. I should be able to easily find out baseline statistics for replication time between servers. I should be able to see counts for how many files ar...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 6 Under review

Synchronous transaction support on B2B.io

B2B.io Use Case: Nobian has a use case where Partner(sender) will send the request to B2B.io, which will get delivered to partner (External/internal- third party- receiver)- the response from the partner to be delivered to the Sender in a synchron...
5 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Under review

Fix the duplicate messaging issue for mailbox ftp/sftp server adapters

IBM says in their documentation that duplicate messages are allowed by default and is controlled by a parameter in the mailbox.properties file (disallowDuplicateMessages= false). This is inaccurate, We are seeing errors where duplicate filenames a...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Under review

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Alert to files stuck in SFG mailbox

Occasionally when SFG encounters issues files will not get picked up and routed by SFG. Until the file has been picked up by the SFG routing rule it is not visible in the SFG arrived file display meaning it is hard to identify where there are issu...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Be able to configure RTAM to not monitor Model item level availability

RTAM spends time calculating the Model item level inventory availability (yfs_item.is_model_item = 'Y') but our business does not use this information so it's an opportunity to save resources for us. Could we add a customer overrides property to d...
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Under review

Ability to retrieve original payload from B2B logs

The content downloaded from transaction log is modified. We would like to be able to download the actual data that was received.
12 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 2 Under review

Support to update trading partner (partner profile) data or ask to remove their data or configuration in SFG

Based a regulations like GDPR and LGPD customer needs do provide to their trading partners the option to update the trading partner profile thru myFG 2.0 or even an option to remove or download their data.
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review