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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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Allow upgrade of SFG Clustered environment using SSL connection to DB2

The Db2 Configuration needs to be modified to allow a non-ssl connection to the DB, this is a security violation in our environment. Then we need to make several modifications to customer_overrides.properties, jdbc.properties.in & Sandbox.cfg ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Add EDI FA 997 correlation values to inbound document PIDs (similar to how FA 997 correlation is handled for outbound documents)

When an inbound EDI X12 document is received from a partner an outbound 997 is apparently automatically triggered based on the SCBN setup. This outbound 997 FA shares the same SCBN PID as the originating inbound document, but this action does not ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Allow users to reload documents with a status "available" that have not been picked up in more than 24 hours.

This will provide users the ability to pick up documents that have exhausted the number retries allowed. Today, the only way to fix is by opening a ticket with support to mark the documents as "picked up" so that the user can then reload them to t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

log modification at source end

Our splunk monitoring software is having the following issues while trying to review the Sterling Integrator logs: • AggregatorMiningProcessor • LineBreakingProcessor • Event Length>10000 Character
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Sterling B2B Integrator Container version ability to map to window servers

We are in the middle of a project to move from B2B/SFG on a Windows VM to a container environment using Red Hat OpenShift. The hold up for this project is our ability to map to windows servers. We have over 700 shares/directories to map. It is cri...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

BULK Attachment option to add in BULK Edit

At Present, while creating a bulk workflow -- we need to go into each item to add an attachment (e.g. if create a Bulk workflow of 100 materials, then we need to go into each material 100 times to add an attachment to have a future reference) It ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments,

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Hide Recommended (Export) ROP, Recommended (Export) ROQ fields for MTC/OPS User Role

• As part of Item request feature roll out, end users (maintenance planners) will now need to submit item requests (stock level change requests) in MRO IO. More than 500 end users will now have read only access to MRO IO. • As we all know material...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Provide scripting option to import, export, and deploy CDT xml files

The ssctl command can be used to upload and deploy customizations jar files. It would be nice to expand the functionality of this command to support the upload, download, import, export, and deployment of CDT xml files. This would enable automatio...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration