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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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Include SCORE+ maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to include support for SCORE+ in Fi...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Future consideration

Add Solace to the list of supported vendors for JMS 1.1

Right now Solace is not listed under the supported vendors and configurations for JMS 1.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=adapters-supported-vendors-configurations-jms-11
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

data anonymization/masking (typetree attribute + test mode)

There are 2 requirements that lead to this idea: 1.) external requirements like GDPR force us to anonymize/pseudonymize data in non-production environments2.) A-B-testing would be much easier if we can mask dynamic attributes (e.g. timestamps) Thi...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Check box to enable or disable rules by selecting multiple rules at a time

Implementer needs to go to each and every rule to either enable or disable them during testing or production move, by adding this new feature in BPN tool, we can select the similar kind of rules (by rule set, rule names,....) which allows us to se...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Implement Exponential Retry Configuration for SFTP Connections

Concept: Introduce a feature that allows users to define exponential backoff retry policies for SFTP connection attempts. This means that if an initial connection fails, the system will automatically retry the connection after a short delay. If th...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Planned for future release

Integrate a feature to move files to an archive directory through the SFTP protocol layer, without needing to set up a flow

Integrate a feature to move files to an archive directory directly through the SFTP protocol layer, without needing to set up a flow
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM

Hello Team, We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same https://www.ibm.com/sup...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

Support Load balancing for IBM DB2 service.

We are having b2bi(Sterling Integrator) installed in VM and Database we have for B2Bi is IBM DB2 and there are 3 IPs assigned to the DB and being load balanced with Round robin. This scenario seems not supported. Having support for this feature wi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Needs more information

The ability to monitor the time frame when no activity has happened.

There are times when Sterling File Gateway gets stuck and stops processing files but no alerts are generated etc. I would like to be able to monitor for no activity and when no activity has been detected in X time to be able to raise and alert/snm...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning

PCM allows conflicting setups that override each other with no warning For example on the typing side users can have 2 setups that both have the same sender, reciever, document type and when cm_coreprocess gets back the results from the typing ser...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted