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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...
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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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Capability to update Item extended attributes.

In SIP, PATCH itemAssignedAttributes should have capability to modify or override the value in the collection field "values" of the existing itemAssignedAttribute.
7 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

Sterling Control Center Monitor Oracle RAC cluster enable multiple service names

We understand that we can't configure two database service names via configCC.sh. We would like to raise an enhancement request to update the configuration in the property files to map two different database service names to the same Oracle RAC en...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add time zone to Connect Direct logs

Add time zone information to Connect Direct logs. Log file should present the datetime/timestamp in unambiguous fashion.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Standardize SFTP/FTP Server and client logs for external dashboard consumption like ELK

We are using the SFTP / FTP server and client logs to monitor user activity via Dashboard. We want to provide communication level visibility to our business users from our enterprise application that stores all our B2B data. Its very difficult to ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Support for Windows Server 2022

Hello, Since Microsoft is sunsetting Windows Server 2012, we are needing to upgrade our current servers. We would like to move to Server 2022 but it doesn't seem to be supported yet. Would you be able to tell me if you are currently working on cer...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Add creation or deletion of SSH profiles to the admin audit report

We have scheduled the admin audit report in SI. However it is not logging the creation or deletion of SSH profiles. Recently a SSH profile was deleted from SI and we don't know who did it.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Option to exclude MAILBOX messages from PurgeAll.sh

We run SI as stateless, but use MAILBOX for B2B communication. We clean up SI once every quarter to improve the performance / response time. The clean up process becomes cumbersome because we have to make sure all MAILBOX messages are backed up un...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Add a polling feature to IBM Sterling B2B Integrator similar - to the IBM Sterling GENTRAN polling feature.

The GENTRAN polling feature we have used for years had made it possible to be very close to RealTIME in processing and getting files to their destination. Our internal systems and external customers have come to expect this, especially to meet SLA...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Adding custom attributes/object to demand entity

While capturing the demand in SIP, we want to collect, persist, and publish additional information associated with the Demand. This will help the demand data to be more informative to downstream systems.
about 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

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