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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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Ability to present 'Action' options to Approver(s) within Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, when creating some types of Workflow Rules, I would like the ability to add a list of 'options' for the original (1st) Workflow approver to choose from as a part of their approval, that relate to the result of the appro...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Decompress .zip files

We have a requirement where the partner application will send compressed(.zip) files. One zip file will contain multiple documents in it. The zip file should be decompressed and the individual files should be sent to the downstream application. An...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Need milliseconds in Source timestamp in IV

Currently in IV we have field "sourceTs" :"2021-02-24T18:42:01Z" but it does not contain milliseconds in it.
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Functionality already exists

ITXA - Documentation needing to be updated for the following properties including their implications.

Customer is wanting documentation on the following properties and the implicatoins of using them: # Lock Manager settings: Uncomment to change the default values. # Maximum time to wait for acquiring a lock in ms. The default is 2 hours. #envelopi...

Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Display who the current approver is on a change request instead of only showing the final approver

When you are reviewing the workflow and seeing where change requests are awaiting review/approval, this feature will allow you to easily be able to see who the current approver is who is. This way, when reports are pulled we know where the request...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Node out of cluster - Process files gracefully automatically

Business will get benefitted and avoid impacting bank's reputation.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Needs more information

Location Table ContactName string greater than 35 charecters.

We are currently using this field 'Contact' to store the email address, but the email that we are currently updating is 36 characters long and the last character is getting truncated due to the field length limitation of the Contact field. So need...

OOTB Antivirus scan using ICAP

When using ICAP integration on SSP there are a lot of files with the .unscanned renaming due to the volume of the files or any other of the highly possible scenarios in which the file is sent to the backend without being scanned. Due to the type o...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Enhancement for S3 Put service in Sterling Integrator tool

we need to invoke the AWS S3 Put BP from a parent BP. The AWS S3 Put BP always asks for a path of the source file and it doesn't take the file from parent BP like other BPs/Services Hence, we need an enhancement to achieve this without giving a...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration