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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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Sterling Connect:Direct on RHOS on IBM Power

Support for Sterling Connect:Direct on RHOS on IBM Power is essential for technology modernization initiatives to support flexible deployment methodologies and technology strategies. This would benefit customers running Sterling Connect:Direct on ...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

CreateNewAS2Relationship API - Improve performance of the API to match that of previous versions using shell script / BP approach

RFE: CreateNewAS2Relationship API Improve performance of the API to match that of previous versions. There was a security fix (IT40683) implemented in B2Bi v6.0.3.7 that was merged up through v6.1.1.3, then v6.1.2.2 impacting AS2 Relationships API...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Office 365 Message Encryption/Decryption

Request is for Microsoft Office Message Encryption/Decryption functionality for SFG. This will be required where 3rd party Producers/Consumers are using OME as their preferred encryption tool.
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Not under consideration

File size for config Hub map tester should be increased beyond 50MB size limit, customer-Breakthrough beverage facing lot of failures

Our SCBN customer-Breakthrough beverage Corp facing lot of failures for processing Invoice to their partners as their file size is going beyond 50MB, same issue has been seen multiple times with other customers as well.File size for config Hub map...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

For Type records panel to add confirmation prompt to confirm saving or record should not get added with PF3

Currently, there is delimitation while we go to admin panel for adding new type record in NDM admin-> IT panel , if we bychance hit PF3 it creates an incomplete record. And to remediate this everytime either we have to update the wrongly create...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Extend Advanced Permission Management feature to SFG

Similar to the article below, however extend this feature for SFG. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/tanvi-kakodkar1/2020/01/20/advanced-permission-management
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Support Load balancing for IBM DB2 service.

We are having b2bi(Sterling Integrator) installed in VM and Database we have for B2Bi is IBM DB2 and there are 3 IPs assigned to the DB and being load balanced with Round robin. This scenario seems not supported. Having support for this feature wi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Needs more information

Script to suppress the alerts during/after the maintenance hours

We CCM running on our environment and monitoring SFG/B2Bi/SEAS/CD components. During weekend maintenance/Disaster recovery Test we need to suppress/clear the alerts in CCM Panel manually. It will be easy if we can schedule a job run a script to cl...

DB2 HADR (ACR) support for ICC and underlying COGNOS

DB2 Clustering (HADR) is well accepted in the DB2 community. SFG has recently added support for the ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) functionality to take advantage of DB2 clusters perss this link:SFG_with_ACR SCC support for DB2 clusters is also n...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Work Queue Exclusion option for items in Workflow

Items that are currently routing for approval may carry over from one month to the next. It would be good to have the option to exclude items from wok queue if they are routing for approval.
12 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release