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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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Automating CI/CD build/deployment pipeline starting with the development environment

We were working on a build/deployment pipeline for the IBM Sterling Order Management System (OMS) and there seemed to be too many manual steps in this process going from development to QA to PROD. We were hoping to get a more automated build/deplo...
over 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Extend the REST API Client Service to allow for Bearer Token as an authorization method

When connecting to the PayPal REST API's for invoicing they require Bearer Token authorization. The token is retrieved from an API that uses Basic authentication.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Job Status >>> Job Item Summary enhancement for failed codelist due to duplicate entries

We have request from customers like VF Services to update new codelist entries (more then 100 +) for an already existing codelist . For such request Support/PER/Implementer would normally take the back up of the existing codelist (XML) and merge t...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Missing GS ID causes entire file to fail validation

During the Deenvelope service, missing envelope for GS id causes the entire file to fail. The process should fail only the missing GS and continue processing the rest of the file.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration

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