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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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Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Support

Many enterprises have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) as their standard. It would be ideal to add support for OEL OS, so customers can deploy the product without any if and buts we have today in our support statement. https://www.ibm.com/support/kno...

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Support

Many enterprises have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) as their standard. It would be ideal to add support for OEL OS, so customers can deploy the products (SSP CM/SSP Engine/SSP PS) without any if and buts we have today in our support statement. htt...

Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Improve debug capabilities on failed maps

When a map is deployed and fails translation, it is very difficult to find out the reason of the failure. A clear report on what has been the failure, as the Translation service of SterlingB2B Integrator, that includes type or error, iteration cou...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Expected Ship Date on Transfer Order is pushed to Monday

We are facing issue related to Store to Store transfers. Transfer Order is created for a Pickup Order.It has expected Ship Date same as the Customer PICKUP date of actual Sales Order. This issue is replicable on Thurday and sat is allowed for tran...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 10 Not under consideration

An enhancement request with Product Management to add support for AWS RDS SQL*Server and/or AWS RDS Postgres with Kerberos authentication.

We are migrating existing SQL*Server database (w/ Kerberos authentication) to AWS RDS platform. Current C::D Control Center does NOT support AWS RDS (any databases, such as Postgres). We won;t be able to configure Control Center as IT IS NOT MEET ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

IV Node availability call to accomodate custom supply and demand types when integrated with OMS

Most of the OMS implementation would have custom supply and/or demand types part of their business. Currently, the IV node availability call considers only OOB supply and demand types when integrated with OMS, which gives an incorrect inventory pi...
almost 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to create single relationship setup which can handle multiple folders for FTP/SFTP

Business scenario : Currently our system configuration allows only one FTP/SFTP folder to be pointed under single Sterling Commerce Inflight relationship. Sometimes we get request from client for 1xFTP/SFTP setup but route different file type to r...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Self-Service option in SFG, allow our business partner to replay their own failed transfers.

Is there an option in SFG to allow our business partner to replay their own failed file transfers for their accounts? If so, do you have any documentation/information on how to enable that feature?
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Functionality already exists