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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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Update SI to support the latest version of GnuPG using the provided CLA2CMD Adapter (RTC 584840)

Currently Sterling Integrator supplied GnuPG Adapter supports PGP V2.0. This has been depreciated on 31st December 2017. The newest versions (currently 2.2.16) fail to work (see RTC 584840) with the internally supplied cla2cmd adapter.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Not under consideration

Allow for periods in Provisional Facts in SFG

In Sterling File Gateway, when elected to use a provisional fact in a Routing Channel Template, it does not all for periods in the value you can input when creating the routing channel. This causes the need for a custom business process and compli...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Update the EBICS HAC schema to comply with standard

the xml schema used in EBICS HAC is ISO20022 pain.002.001.05 when it should be pain.002.001.03 according to the 2.5 version of the standard. Even more, in version 3.0 is not updated to .05 and still remains .03 (need to be doubled checked though)
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Planned for future release

Looping RC validation check

We have encountered this problem many times, there is no precheck in SFG that will check for loops before deploying the routing channel. Due to this problem, we have ran into huge recursive file routing loops which kept reprocessing the same ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release

In EBICS Client, ability to get both EBICS T and EBICS TS on a same FileFormat (SEPA SCT) with one Bank

In EBICS Client the offer definition doesn't allow to have different level of signature for one file format with a bank. This enhancement request is to have the offer at the Partner ID Level, and not at the bankID Level which is too restrictive in...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Is a defect

EBICS Server / Client support of xml structures without ds: prefixes

As of now EBICS Server and Client is not able to parse XML structures without ds prefixes in some places, so the parses explicitly needs those. Where as the XML itself is valid against the XSD of the EBICS order types. We need to have the EBI...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Planned for future release

File Transmission API for B2Bi

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Allow passwords longer than 28 characters for LDAP users

The password field on the SBI dashboard login page is restricted to a maximum of 28 characters. However external users who are using LDAP for authentication can have passwords longer than this value, which makes it impossible for these users to lo...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Enable JMS Service to be configured under Adapter Container (AC) in addition to ASI

Our environment mostly (around 80%) consists of JMS services (queues) and we want to segregate that from our ASI, sometimes we have to reboot the entire Application (SBI) if the queues does not move. We are planning to move JMS Services to Adapter...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Data...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release