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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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Support Open API 3.0 specifications int he OpenAPI typetree importer

As of now the OpenAPI importer only support swagger 2.0 json format. However, as the OpenApi V3 in json/yaml become more and more common it would be very usefull for ITX to support it.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Redirect HTTP to HTTPs in B2B REST API Service/ Enforce HTTPS-only connection

Currently, the B2B REST API is exposed with HTTP and HTTPS but the other connections and configurations from Sterling Integrator are configured with HTTP by default as Sterling Control Center or PEM. Unlike other Sterling B2B Integrator components...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Control Center Director -- Additional Node Upgrade Selection Options

Looking for additional/more robust functionality for additional scoping options when performing CDW and CDU upgrades through CCD. Something like the import a server list .csv , or to be able to create/populate a dynamic large group or list. Select...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Audit record/log for the SQL statement executed via db_exec.sh and db_execFile.sh scripts

Hi Team, Currently in Sterling B2B Integrator there is no audit records/logs for the SQL statements executed via scripts db_exec.sh and db_execFile.sh. We have verified the logs and ADMIN_AUDIT table and could not find any audit trial for the SQL ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Extend processcontrolcriterias CDWS web service in order to run simple transfers on-the-fly

Currently in CDWS the "processcontrolcriterias" web service allows to run Connect Direct transfers using processFile with path to *.cdp process file which must be present on the server prior to Connect Direct transfer execution. For simple transfe...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Code lists that can be conditional.

It would be good if you could have code lists that are conditional so that these can be updated easily without being a full-blown configuration change. We have different plants that use specific MRP Types and Lot Sizing Procedures. The list of val...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

USER Management API

Development of an API that can create and update user account, roles, and set permissions. An API of this nature would allow IT Management programs such as Saviynt to dynamically control user access within the application based on client's own Ide...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future 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