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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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Overwrite protection for transferred files

The current file transfer process lacks an essential feature: the ability to control file overwrites when a transferred file shares the same name as an existing file at the destination. We propose implementing a checkbox option to enable or disabl...
7 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Future consideration

Please add 'Delete After Collection' functionality for mailbox protocol

The current implementation of the mailbox protocol lacks the ability to delete files after collection, which significantly limits its utility for our requirements. As we frequently need to remove source files post-collection, this omission renders...
7 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 2 Needs more information

Checbox to enable/disable error notifications if file in the source location does not match the naming pattern defined in Data Flow

Currently, when adding file naming pattern in DataFlow, PEM CM sends error notifications via email for every file in the source location that doesn't match specified naming pattern. The error notification is sent even if the file in the source mat...
7 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration

Need a way to select multiple envelopes or maps and delete them all at once

It is very tedious to delete batches of envelopes or maps since you have to select each one, delete it, and then repeat with all the rest. There should be a way to select batches of them similar to how the export resources works and then delete th...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - improve the EDI X12 27x transaction

To Support EDI 27x transactions and follow X12 HIPAA Guidelines. My company Prolifics Inc is working with the client who is BlueShield of California (Health Insurance provider). We are working in a project where we have to deal with the EDI 27x (2...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

ConfigHub -- provision to update codelist in ConfigHub portal

Currently, the only available option to modify codelist is to download the corresponding codelist as CSV file, add new codelist entries or modify entries to the CSV file, and then upload the updated CSV file into confighub with a new version. It...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Provision to update code-list in ConfigHub

Currently, the only available option for codelist update from Confighub is to download it as a CSV file, add new codelist entries to the CSV file, and then upload the updated CSV file into ConfigHub with a new version. It would be beneficial to ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow Workflow to Continue After API has Failed

When creating an API dialog there should be an option to continue workflow even when the API fails. Preferably, it would have conditions to continue based upon what error is received.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Planned for future release

PEPPOL Invoice/Application Response generated via XML validation report using Generic Status option

For PEPPOL Implementation, the Invoice/Application response are generated based on the outcome of the validation service report. The error message from the report is used to put in the Response message back to partner. In current flow, we cannot u...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Allow segregation of administrators to discrete lists of trading partners

Our organization has multiple business units. We need the ability to assign administrators so that they can make changes to only those accounts assigned to their business unit. Example - Trading partners A, B, and C are assigned to business unit A...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration