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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...
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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Remove case sensitivity in trading partner accounts logins

SFG/B2BI requires case sensitivity when our trading partners log into the system (abcd is not equal to ABCD). This is causing issues for our trading partners as we migrate from our legacy MFT that did not have this restriction.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

ITXA - Include "Created by" column for Code Lists in Trading Partner UI

Currently, the "Created by" column is not available for Code Lists, but is available for Maps and Envelopes. This column is needed to give developers and support staff visibility on who has created/updated Code Lists.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

System level failure Notifications

Purpose of this request: Files entering IBM B2B SaaS solution should create failure notifications if failed. This is working fine when a file is failing in Inflight – Processing step. However, 2 areas are identified when no failure notification is...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Removal of Outer join query in WORKFLOW_CONTEXT Table

The below SQL query is one of the important one to get output from DB Statistics report. However, from what we can see, we are not sure why the 2nd join with WORKFLOW_CONTEXT (WC2) is needed (see the yellow-highlight in the attached screenshot). I...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

Provide a read-only role for the Partner Repository

We'd like to be able to provide sponsor users who are not admins a way to have read-only access to the items in the Partner Repository, such as Code Lists, Generic Data, etc.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 1 Planned for future release

Provide a way for sponsor standard users to roll out an activity

We need to have our sponsor standard users to be able to roll out activities, while still being able to control their participation in a rolled out activity based upon the custom role they have been assigned to. Perhaps there could be a way, simil...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 1 Not under consideration

support of Oauth2 & OIDC in Sterling integrator

With more and more "business" moving to the cloud, it will be essential
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Add EDIID/Envelope Name & Map Name to 'Trading Relationships' avcivity report's 'Column options'

I have a report enhancement to request. HUSCO, Wabtec, Ball Corp and Pacific Cycle have all mentioned this to me in recent weeks. Backgound:Clients request custom reports from us at at times to pull an inventory of trading partners, envelope name...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release