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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...
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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...
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AS2 File status updates

When trying to send a file to the customer, it shows in PCM that the file was successful. See screenshot #1. When you View Activity, it shows that the file/s were sent to AS2. See screenshot #2. However, the AS2 connection is not working. When tes...
6 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Steam data for excel adapter

According to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ITX-I-27, it is mentioned that the excel and pdf adapters can handle stream data while integrating with B2Bi or ITXA. However as per the case TS014440463, there is a limitation for excel adapter to read fro...
10 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Submitted

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
16 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Needs more information

Config Hub Codelist interface to have search and edit options

Can the Config Hub codelist interface have the option to search and edit any codelist entry rather than downloading the entire dump of codelist from CTE/Production? The reason is that we have customers who have thousands of entries in a codelist a...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Codesets caching in hipaa healthcare pack

We want some kind of caching mechanism in the hipaa healthcare pack, so instead of calling the database (for SNIP 5 rules) each time the map is called, it should cache the codeset values from DB.
8 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Submitted

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Include a field on each material to display the highest Business Impact and Moving Code value from any other plant in the business. MAke the field visible in grid view and reports.

When managing inventory at large multi site site operations - this will allow the materials to be consilidated at a central hub. The highest moving, or highest criticality site could be the holding location for any given material, allowing the inv...
5 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Have the ability to import a public and secret key ring into native PGP for B2Bi.

I believe that this functionality would be useful for the user community to be able to import an entire key ring (both public and secret) instead of having to import the keys individually.
9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

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