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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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Add the ability to administer division partners and LOB users via the PEM Portal UI

Currently, Divisions can be created via the portal UI, however, the assigning/unassigning of partners to divisions and the assigning/unassigning of LOB users can currently only be done via API calls. It would be much easier if this could be done v...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic routing of File Transfers

Admins of PCM would benefit from this because it could shorten the file transfer build time. A dynamic dataflow would allow an admin to setup one main transfer that allowed any file dropped into that mailbox to be routed to any outbound partner ba...
9 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Metrics API enhancement

We are attempting to add metrics data to an internal application for monitoring the sterling environment and currently the REST api does not contain any endpoints that would allow us access to the data tha currently backs the Active Alerts, Transf...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

HSTS enhancement on GIS system

u As per the incident TS007584566 we have requested for HSTS enhancement in GIS system. Previously we have requested the same via TS007322240 and we have been suggested to raise a enhancement request as it is standard functionality. Kindly conside...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

UI Updates to show where object is used

There are many objects in the system that have interdependencies. It would be very useful to have the ability to see where an object is in use. Examples: SSH Profile - show SFG partners that reference the profileHost Key - show SSH Profiles that u...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Remote profile routing channel 'connection

When using a remote profile, to route a file to a remote server using ssh keys. It would be great to allow something that would take a routing channel name then the producer mailbox path and allow parsing so it can match the directory in the remot...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Make the selected font color configurable in the skins.properties_style_ext file for B2Bi properties.

The selected font color now is yellow and can't be changed. If you color code your environments the standard green, yellow and red. The yellow font color is now hard to see your environments. Let us decide what the selected font color should be.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SFG Utlization and Consumption KPI's

We are trying to explore consumption KPI's of the environment. At a high level, how to obtain correlation between file transfers volume/size with over all resources consumption ? - Build trend visualizations showing weekly consumption - cpu/memory...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Need MailClientAdapter for Exchange Web Service

Customers who have been using SI B2B Mail Client Adapter to receive mail from Exchange Online using the POP3 protocol will no longer be able to use POP or IMAP due to a change in the company's security policy. (And Microsoft itself) So, as an alte...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration