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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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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

Better integration between manageOrganizationHierarchy and Calendars

The API for managing organizations allows the caller to specify the receiving, shipping and business calendars, but only by specifying the calendar key. The key is typically a system generated value which is unique to the environment and therefore...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

C:D support for Multi Factor Authentication

Incorporate into the C:D security processing to allow for users signing on with multi factor authentication credentials.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add Business Alias field in inflight for a process(Process ID)

Existing Document search in BPN has a required field "Business Alias". So along with DateTime Range ; one has to put BA to track any document flowing into the system. One has to search business alias from existing customers business alias. Also if...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Container enhancement - Set group to 0

Currently the PEM container expects to be run as pemuser:pemgroup (1011:1011). The files and directories inside the image are owned by 1011:1011. When running on OpenShift, a random user id is used to run the container. This user is not able to ex...

Helm chart enhancement - Resources volume

Currently the PEM helm chart only supports one way to supply the DB driver jar to the application: 1. Statically provisioned PV bound to the PVC created by the helm chart A related application, B2Bi, has a helm chart that provides additional optio...

HTTP Adapter Connection Properties: SSL Settings - multiple system certificates needed

When the certificate used for our AS2 and HTTP connections with trading partners expires, we must switch to a new certificate. Each of our trading partners must be given the new certificate. The System certificate option on the HTTP Adapter Connec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Not under consideration

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Increase length of Activity Roll Out Name

Allow more characters in the name of activity roll outs. Increase the limit to 300 characters.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration