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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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To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Make ITX functions TimeZone and DST aware

Currently when doing computations with timestamps across DST boundaries the functions (tealted to date/time) don't account for DST switches. This makes the result invalid. So in our case adding or substracting days from a timestamp doesn't take in...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

EASI standards in Sterling Integrator

Hi , Please let me know how we can incorporate EASI standards into our Sterling Integrator map editor . We have Trading Partners that want send data & receive data via EASI standards . The EASI transactions used are mostly 850,856,810,846 . We...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Is a defect

It is not possible to find unused envelope or map name in the database

It is not possible to find unused envelope or map names in the database.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

json sterling mapper

Not able to do EDI into JSON or JSON to JSON for any new tech modernization
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Add detailed software version to .swidtag file

Currently the .swidtag contains version in V.R.M format so it is missing the exact Fix Level and iFix version. For example: version 6.1.0.2_iFix012 for Windows in the .swidtag contains version="6.1.0" and not the full 6.1.0.2_iFix012 (or 6.1.0.2.0...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

The source map name and compiled map name should be same as that of name of Map detail, only then the map deployment should be allowed

The source map name and compiled map name should be same as that of name of Map detail, only then the map deployment should be allowed.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Open diferent sheets from an excel file

We need to build a map where the input will be an excel file, but the information is retrieved from different sheets. Each file received contains a different number of sheets and the information will be retrieved by cells assigned in another inp...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Looping Functionality for Dialogs (UI, API, XSLT)

Many times it is not possible to know the number of times that you need an API to execute. Looping would allow the execution of an API or UI dialog to be dynamic. This could be utilized in a great number of use cases, one of which I outlined below.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Functionality already exists

Schedule Server to Stop and Start through SST

Currently the SST allows to set the scheduling of the server to either Trigger at a certain time or to Start and Stop within the 24 hours. We would need the ability to schedule the Data Extract Server to be stopped during the weekily DB Reorg bein...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration