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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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ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Under review

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
11 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Hide UniqueID Token in GET parameter for MyFilegateway

Situation: Using MyFilegateaway the uniqueId token is passed as parameters in the URL in GET/POST Request Methods Example: https://mft-nala-val.roche.com/myfilegateway/MyFGUpload.do?uniqueId=-1ccob8032vnyn This value could be used accessing to Bro...
11 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Expand PCM correlation to allow bigger datasets of key and value paris

FedEx – PEM Standard / Partner Community Manager Correlation requirements FedEx has a use case where they will be processing large files in B2B via PCM and using ITX for translation. Translation will be outputting correlation data. The high-water ...
21 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Including 277DRA transaction in Compliance Check

Our clients are seeking to check compliance on 277DRA transactions as well . Version - 5010

Customised monitoring dashboard views

The current SST monitoring dashboards are limited to filtering on queues per session - there is no way to save a view or create a dedicated link to quickly access the same view again (user setting not persisted). Where technical members may reacti...
13 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted