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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...
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...

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Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 5 Not under consideration

Do not route .part or .lock

We have had a situation where transfers were interrupted and the source kept connecting and startting a transfer and then disconnecting (poorly written in Azure) and it cause ALOT (30 plus) .partial and .lock files. And since this upload directory...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Create the configuration file (bin file) with LCU.bat from an input file

In order to avoid a lot of manual work and administration, we would like to automate the creation of the configuration file (bin file) that is currently done with LCU.bat. For example, with this kind of command: LCU.bat < Config.txt or LCU.bat ...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 3 Functionality already exists

Allow Sterling Integrator to support STARTTLS SMTP when connecting to MS Office 365

I am geting the following error java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:java.rmi.RemoteException: B2BMailSMTPImpl, mail cannot be sent because of an exception received from the server; nested except...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

User Exit enhancement allowing a map to read rows in the TransactionRegister

Adding the requirement as SCBN Premium customer has requested duplicate file check based on PO number, within a given timeframe. Their current requirement is to check for duplicate PO within 72 hours. Based on feedback from development team the ti...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Suggest a New Non Billable mailslot

When we onboard a new Trading partner for a VAN Customer, we create a non billable MQslot for a Trading partner using SQSF8xxx or SGIODxxx mailbox, implementers have to search for a new unused mailslot in MB01 by using various combination for the ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

To eliminate duplicate certificate in inflight import

Multiple teams import various certificates into legacy inflight, which results in duplicate certificates getting uploaded with a different name while the serial numbers for most of the certificates are same. When we import the certificate into Inf...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

User Accounts with limited access control to Sterling File Gateway components

Sterling B2B Integrator should provide options to create & assign DENY permissions to Sterling File Gateway components. At present Sterling file gateway does not have the options to create permissions for specific components. We'll have to use...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Functionality already exists

ITXA - Need Utility to Perform Performance Testing

We are needing some type of Performance Testing Utility that users can use to test for Memory issues, Responses when running multiple instances of a job.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

automapper should also work with same input/output types

It is a common pattern to work twice on a output card, e.g.:- when the output should also include summarized amounts of several output records that need to be built/calculated first- when the header should announce how many records will follow Now...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration