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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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Insights into the failed messages on inflight Dashborad

Priority High Ask •Insights into the failed messages on inflight Details of Ask •Provide insights into failed transactions, by providing further categorization on failed transaction . •Grouping of failures based on sender/receiver ID combination b...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 3 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...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Registration link to close after registering

After registration the link is not closing. Instead it times out and confusing people since the page is still opened.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 3 Functionality already exists

Increase PNUM limit to a much higher value (e.g. 1'000'000'000)

PNUM is actually limited to 99999 for most CD implementations. This is very low and has for effect that pnum can rotate very quickly. ICC is for example relying the grouping of CD events on this Process ID (which is a non sense as it's not unique,...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Capability to suppress emails as part of onboarding partners

As part of the partner onboarding when a customer wants to onboard partner to PEM emails notification on the onboarding status gets generated. We currently dont see any configurable options to control the behavior of the application. So customer w...
11 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration

Allow to create PGP Partner & PGP sponsor through API's on SFG Swagger UI using Native PGP

There is no way to create on Native PGP a PGP Partner or a PGP sponsor using API's through this url : http://<host>:<baseport+74>/sfgapis/swagger-ui.html We would like 2 new menus in the swagger : pgp-partner-controller pgp-sponsor-con...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

AutoMerge feature for every new release

As mentioned by IBM previously that there would be an automerge feature for every release.Can we get an ETA for this as the process is time consuming
11 months ago in Store Engagement / Other 1 Not under consideration