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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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Enhancing monitoring rules

Order monitoring rules should be based on the combination of count of orders in a particular status for a period of time. This will help to monitor the orders when an agent is not working fine or a technical glitch in the system and can react and ...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Planned for future release

Display who the current approver is on a change request instead of only showing the final approver

When you are reviewing the workflow and seeing where change requests are awaiting review/approval, this feature will allow you to easily be able to see who the current approver is who is. This way, when reports are pulled we know where the request...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

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

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

Node out of cluster - Process files gracefully automatically

Business will get benefitted and avoid impacting bank's reputation.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Location Table ContactName string greater than 35 charecters.

We are currently using this field 'Contact' to store the email address, but the email that we are currently updating is 36 characters long and the last character is getting truncated due to the field length limitation of the Contact field. So need...

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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

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

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