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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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During SPE Enveloping service ISA & GS control number not getting incremented when a file has both Good and Bad transaction sets.

Issue Description:- We have integrated ITX with ITXA and calling Envelopes from ITXA by using SPE adapter in ITX rule. In the EDI Message, If we have a good transaction set as well as bad transaction set. The envelope is not being added to the EDI...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Include ability to specify CD properties overrides in customer_overrides.properties file

Include ability to specify CD properties overrides in customer_overrides.properties file From https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_6.0.3/administering/administering/integrator/SI_PrpFile_Overriding_Props_Using_cust_overrides.html The...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Allow Sterling Integrator to support STARTTLS SMTP when connecting to MS Office 365

I am geting the following error java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:java.rmi.RemoteException: B2BMailSMTPImpl, mail cannot be sent because of an exception received from the server; nested except...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Support TLS Certificate authentication in SMTP adapter

Migrating to Microsoft Cloud-hosted SMTP Relay using port 25. Applications are required to have company domain issued TLS certificate for communication when sending to users outside the company.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Provide "null" as value when there is no record of the item

Currently, when we call IV asking for the availability of a SKU that does not exist (eg "Hobbit_250", IV returns "0" units available. But considering that IV has no record of this product, we want IV to return "Null" If there is a record of the pr...
7 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

SFTP change setting authentication order (password, publickey) in the Two-factor authentication

In Sterling B2B Integrator both the SFTP Server and SFTP Client have Two-factor authentication (publickey, password) are configured to have the authentication sequence fixed as password authentication after public key authentication. However, for ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Ability to mass download maps, codelists, envelopes, comm setups and routing rules for periodic backup

The customer wants the ability to download their assets—maps, envelopes, codelists, communication setups, and routing rules—from our SaaS platform via APIs. This will allow them to maintain a local backup of latest copies of these assets.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Support Multiple CA certificates in HTTP client adapters

We have partners that are starting to deploy systems in multiple geographic zones in an active/active configuration. Each zone is presenting its own SSL certificate. For smooth processing, it would be ideal if a list of certificates could be provi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration