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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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Ability to HOLD data at IBM during customer's maintenance window and RELEASE it after maintenance (SAP ALE Connections)

Couple of protocols like CD allows IBM to HOLD inbound data during customer's maintenance/outage window and release it when their system is back to normal. We don't have similar "HOLD" mechanism with other protocols like SAP ALE adapter. For Proto...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Option to include Associated Data file in the Enhanced Reporting Notification (ERN) Emails

We are currently sending metadata and translation error report only in ERN emails. Customer wants us to include input data file that caused failures as one of the file attachments in ERN emails. This will help their support team to look at the inp...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Under review

generate a PDF file with the images and tables using the details in the received input file.

PDF adapter needs more power to generate pdf files with images and tables using the data from the input file/message.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

webMethods Integration Server JDBC adapter needs a central configuration mechanism

The correct product isn't listed in products. The request is about webMethods integration server JDBC adapter. JDBC adapter stores credentials and connection configuration in the files system. This prevents us to use vault for storing the credenti...
about 2 months ago in WebM ActiveTransfer 0 Submitted

Fix/Update Schedule inclusion timeframes to allow 12am/00:00

The current error message in the schedule exclusion section suggests that the 12:00am time frame should be used. Its not clear to the users and admins that the exclusion will not run at midnight. Updating the error message or allowing 12:00 would ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Enable option to view the code-list entries on Config Hub user interface

Can you please check and add an option where we can view the code-list entries directly on config hub screen instead of downloading csv file or checkout and quick edit options. we have this option on Config Center where we can view the code-list e...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Require sequential number/counter that resets every day

Customer requires a new sequential counter that resets every day. They use this counter in the data content as well as in file names. This counter reset should be configurable based on timezone and accessed by maps as well as routing rules
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

File Extraction Notification

Within the global mailbox administrator, we can see in the extraction criteria tab of mailbox explorer the date/time that a file is extracted either by file delivery from SFG/GM or by the client pulling the file from the mailbox. Our issue is that...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

MyFileGateway interaction when PEM/PCM is installed

This affects businesses who use "MyFileGateway" to allow their external customers to upload files. Have a customer need for MyFleGateway, when integrated with PEM/PCM to pull file transfer upload success/failure and/or routing information from PCM...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 0 Submitted