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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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Support to update trading partner (partner profile) data or ask to remove their data or configuration in SFG

Based a regulations like GDPR and LGPD customer needs do provide to their trading partners the option to update the trading partner profile thru myFG 2.0 or even an option to remove or download their data.
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Wildcards to send PDS datasets to Linux/Windows directories

Actually it's not possible to send PDS members from CDzOS to CDLinux or CDWindows, using wildcards, f.i. USER.PDS.DSN(*) to /user/path/*. We have several applications that are using other products like XCOM or MQFTE, and with these products it's p...

Increase the size of Default_config.json in CDFA 6.3

have observed in the wild (namely, banking sector customer support scenario), that when the default_config.json is larger than 1MB, integrated FA fails to either import the new configuration, save new config or reopen the configuration for editing...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Hiding of unnecessary ROP/ROQ Methods

MRO provides a number of ROP/ROQ Methods that may not be applicable for a given client's environment. These methods are usually included by default in their drop-down list for selection by users. I'd like a method to either hide or remove methods ...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Option to create Dashboards in GrayLog

At the moment we don't have an option to create dashboards in the GrayLog. Given an option to create dashboards will help to monitor the number of errors or exceptions occurring on different business critical services.
7 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

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...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 5 Future consideration

RE: 64 Character Limitation In Email section on SI User Accounts

Hi Team, We noticed that there is a 64 character length limitation in email section on SI user accounts, please check the attached screenshot for better understanding to what I'm referring to. 64 character length limitation is not sufficient for o...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Generate longfile name for Connect:Direct transfers in log

We want to utilize transfer logs generated in syslog/task log to do some automation reporting and alerting. However NDM longfile name which reported in SMF type FI isn't written to syslog so we can't get full pictures for file transfers between un...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists