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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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ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Configuring Mailbox User Interface through HTTP protocol for Global Mailbox

We recently installed Global Mailbox on existing Sterling Integrator and currently working on migrating partners from traditional SI mailboxes to Global Mailboxes. We use SFTP, NDM (connect direct) and HTTPs protocols for file transmission. For SF...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

referenced TypeTree (parts)

You can build one TypeTree or one strucutre and can use it for example as part of choice-group in another TypeTree. Everybody that use TypeTree as a kind of central unit and have to reuse these structures in other interfaces will benefit.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Allow email address to use as user ID

We have requirement to use email address as the user ID in sterling integrator.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Provide Client Machine Certificate instead of User Certificate

When we download certificate from SST, it's is a User certificate. To install this certificate on user's machine, user need to install is manually one by one. We need steps on how to download client machine certificate, So that we can directly dep...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Wildcard Copy to and from Cloud Object Stores

With many customers now moving to the cloud, sending receiving multiple files at a time from the object store is a mandatory requirement for many of our customers and without this support, they are preferring using S3 copy / data sync.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Automatic Control of Sessions between the client and partners to avoid Wait Sessions

If the client has in netmap configuration session limit defined and the partner has in their netmap configuration session limit different from the client, it will leave the process in wait and sometimes depending on the volume, Connect:Direct will...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

E-Invoice: Storing Failed Delivery documents when Archiving the invoice in Inflight

There is a legal requirement to also keep failed delivery documents from failed invoices in Italy. Right now when a failed invoice reaches 30 days old then it gets archived. When archived all events + attachments in the events get removed so there...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Support HP-UX B.11.31 for SSP 6.1

Could you please provide support for SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31? A customer in the financial industry needs us to support SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31 because HPE offers the extended support for B.11.31 until Dec 2028. https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/servers/...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

SIP: Implement Priority Based Sourcing Rules in Sterling Intelligence Promising

Priority of shipnode in Distribution group is not working while calculating estimated delivery date using Calculate item delivery or pickup date using finite capacity windows API. Customers need Ship Node Priority Based Sourcing” in SIP
7 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1