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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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Enable SAPSTAT document tracking direction

For client Electrolux, we received a request to change the SAPSTAT Inflight tracking direction from Outbound to Inbound. I reviewed the rules, and it is already configured as Inbound under the SAPSTAT eval ruleset SendPod Action. However, the Infl...
about 20 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Submitted

Increase buffer size from 262144 to unlimited similar to SFG

Some of our clients when they try connecting through SSP they are facing error requested buffer size (1048576) is larger than max: 262144 When they connect directly to SFG they are able to send without any issue. We request to increase the buffer ...
about 8 hours ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

Multiple Configuration Support for Integrated File Agent

I don't think Integrated File Agent currently supports or allows multiple File Agent configurations. Having this capability would support organization and separation of work. We currently use Integrated File Agent with our AWS ec2 instances. Havin...
about 9 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Call HSM for synchronous backups from Connect Direct

We would like to include in our Connect Direct process a call to HSM to make synchronous backup of important production dataset received or sended to be able to make a fast recover in case of corruption or data lost. We have tried to make calls to...
about 11 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
about 20 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Submitted

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
21 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Under review

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

I would like the ability to download and use Distinct Values on the References tab.

It would be very helpful if I could download information from the References tab to Excel, but I do not seem to have the option. I also noticed that other functions that are available on the ITEMS tab such as distinct values are not available. The...
4 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Needs more information

Customer is expecting a product feature to collect the must gathers rather running a script to collect

LFG has been using B2Bi product for their key business use-cases. Whenever a product issue / project issue occurs, the support team is asking to collect 4-5 different logs. This is tedious job as they have to run customized script to collect the r...