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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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Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

ITX output validation

ITX has option to validation the input file against schema by using the Schema-validation Option on the input card. Same can be disabled by choosing Well-formed. This option is not available for output file that is generated by the map. It would ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 Functionality already exists

Include special characters (e.g. @) in Parameter Name of Obscure Data - Process Data Values service

We are using SI 6.0.3.2 and the Parameter Name does not allow special characters such as "@" being used in the Obscure Data - Process Data Values service. This prevents email addresses being used as Names.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Required JSON Generic converter service for GIODE

Issue: When we need JSON to XML or XML to JSON conversion, we always depend on new ITX Map. Its kind of extra work for us to convert JSON to XML and XML to JSON. We should develop a new map for every XML and JSON structure. Why cant we have a ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Capability to integrate SaaS logging mechanism with 3rd Party applications e.g Splunk

IBM SaaS has an out-of-the-box capability for monitoring and alerting. This information is surfaced in the form of Gray logs within the platform however there is no option available to integrate & exchange this information with other third-par...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

XMLjsonTransformer for conversion xml to json with array

The conversion xmlToJson generate a file with different tag type when the xml have an array with only one element
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

XML to EDI outbound data does not inlcude reference to ST envelope within InFlight

Whether source format is FLAT file or XML file, we should always display ST envelope details in inflight (if we can find a match during enveloping service). In a nXML_TO_EDI flow, XML flow uses typing service where a typing map is executed (instea...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Support generic S3-compatible object store for document storage

On the Sterling roadmap is support for backing the B2Bi container document store with cloud object storage. Our company has on-site S3-compatible object storage (via Dell EMC ECS) - please ensure the S3 support includes S3-compatible setups and no...

Enable Adhoc Email Link for file downloads without User Login Credentials

This is a business need with most enterprise's we have had conversation. While we have stressed on the aspect of Security concerns and its impact. The clients have strongly evinced interest for this capability as the dependency is high on IT and T...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Functionality already exists

MRO-IO Analytics - Report Scheduling

Client had a number of reports created - but was requesting if reports could be scheduled to be run with defined filters and a distribution list to receive the report via email with file type (PDF vs Excel).
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration