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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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Request for caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter

Hello , We have review your questions and comment with our developers in order for this result caching to work with WTX Oracle adapter, a design change would be needed in order to cache the Oracle statement handle. Currently, WTX Oracle adapter on...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Clean the map cache without restarting launcher

Today every time we need to change a map in launcher environment the launcher has to be restarted because the maps are cached there.It doesn't matter if the maps are used directly in the flow or ran by RUN function. For High Availability productio...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

HTTP Adapter Enhancements

Banking sector needs a lot of security on the data we share . The current Http adapter supports some of these functionalities but not all. Currently we are implementing api's or integrating api's by writing jexit function to call an external java ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Functionality already exists

Change MQ adapter password max from 20 to 42+ characters.

MQ adapter in B2BI/SFG is limited to a 20 character password. IBM MQ SaaS offering in IBM Cloud requires a 42 character password minimum. Can the allowed password length be increased so B2BI/SFG MQ adapter will work on IBM Cloud MQ Service?
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

Create a separate jdbc pool for opscmd

Issue: Customer noticed that SBI's opscmd.sh script duplicates the creation of every connection pools from SBI to the Database. Root Cause Analysis: When queueDepth command (using opscmd script) is invoked, it creates another copy of connection po...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Future consideration

Provide visibility of log info within SSP UI for troubleshooting of connectivity or authentication issues

Troubleshooting external trading partner connectivity issues requires accessing the SB2BI servers and searching multiple log files. This is extremely cumbersome as well as requiring production support resources to have access to the server, which ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

LDAP integration with Sterling Control Center

Sterling Control Center should be able to interface directly with LDAP to authenticate without the addition of Sterling External Authentication Server.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 3 Not under consideration

Ability to pass custom alerts to SCC from B2Bi

This is for the ability to send custom alerts to SCC from B2Bi/SFG systems. A service should be designed for use in business processes to allow information to be passed into SCC.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

FileGatewayDeliverFTP business process failure not generating alerts in Sterling Control Center

->FileGatewayDeliverFTP business process failure not generating alerts in Sterling Control Center Comments from IBM: Control Center does not monitor system level BPs, and that is by design. The customer can open an enhancement if they desire an...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Add DVG and submitter ID fields to All File Transfer Services APIs in Control Center 6.1

Requesting to add submitter and data visibility group (DVG) to all file transfer services APIs, especially Get Completed Files List and Read FileTransfers. Current APIs are limited and there is no way to restrict the return results per partner/sub...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release