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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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Ability to create single relationship setup which can handle multiple folders for FTP/SFTP

Business scenario : Currently our system configuration allows only one FTP/SFTP folder to be pointed under single Sterling Commerce Inflight relationship. Sometimes we get request from client for 1xFTP/SFTP setup but route different file type to r...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Feature of Looping to be incorporated on Tasks/Dialogs/API calls etc

Feature of Looping needs to be added on Tasks/Dialogs/API calls etc. Instead of stretching the current flows statically, it is always advisable to have dynamic looping feature, which would make the flows scalable. It not only makes the flow scalab...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Planned for future release

Notify Sponsor an error has occured for a Partner's activity

When a partner is completing an activity an error can occur. In order for the partner to continue the activity the sponsor must investigate the error, resolve, and notify the partner to continue the activity. Currently, there is no way for the Spo...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 2 Not under consideration

Develop generic XSL to convert XML to JSON for new XML validation Service

Develop a XSL to convert XML to Json convertion and deploy in XML validation service. This will help us to remove indivdiual ITX maps for those convertions.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

ITXA-Ambiguous ISA Envelopes

Duplicate envelopes created with same SENDER ID and RECEIVER ID with different name of Envelope Name Please check the envelope database table before making an new entry with same SENDERID and RECEIVER ID so that It can generate an error messag...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 2 Not under consideration

Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Inflight API to fetch the count of Documents status from Inflight(Red,Yellow,Red Reviewed,Yellow Reviewed

Need Inflight API's to fetch the count of Documents status from Inflight(Red,Yellow,Red Reviewed,Yellow Reviewed) This will help getting the instant details for the customers /Support to know about the Document status with out having to login to t...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Alerts Notification capability to customers / Support in PGP Self Service

Currently SCBN is providing self service provision through ConfigHub so that Customer can perform activities on their own with out depending on the IBM Support teams. Recently PGP key were migrated to ConfigHub where customers and support can manm...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Planned for future release

InFlight API' - TP Summary

We have Reports available in inflight which Customer can run and download them from inflight (TP Summary /Inbound Activity Report /outbound Activity reports) Customer is asking for API so that they can fetch the Reports through API,Please do the n...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Planned for future release