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Enhancement for ZIP adapter

a option to list the files present in the zip file. Using ITX map we are able to compress and decompress a zip file. But the problem is we are unsure what files will be received in the zip file. If we are able to do it via a command in zip adapter...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Future consideration

Enhance security and stability bu introducing Customer level session limit to safeguard performance.

The Proposal is to introduce customer level session rate limiting in SSP to enhance stability and security. We can add a enhancement by monitoring session creation rates per customer- identified bu login ID, certificate or IP-SSP can enforce confi...
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Provide a SWITCH or CASE function

Request to provide a long-missing function in ITX for SWITCH or CASE loop, where a set of evaluations would be considered in order with the first success would return a value and exit the loop. Example: = SWITCH ( UPPERCASE ( Value:Record ), "H" :...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Future consideration

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 3 Future consideration

Include SCORE+ maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to include support for SCORE+ in Fi...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Future consideration

Report duplicated entries in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg

Currently Control Center does not report duplicated entries added to netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg Connect Direct config files. This causes ambiguity. Duplicates can be reported by cfgcheck on the server but there is no possibility to discover/edit/dele...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

API for Engine Config Push

Provide API to push configuration to engines. Same functionality as the "Push Config" button on the Monitoring->Engine Status (All) page on the UI.
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Add slc notes to be displayed as part of an SLC alert

A note section was added to Control Center slc's as part of an enhancement request. This is very useful and beneficial to the team that is responsible for monitoring Control Center alerts. However, the team is asking if the notes could be part of ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration