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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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Change how CDW Statistics are gathered

I propose that a change be made to the CDW software to be able to gather CDW Statistics reports in the same format as is used by CDU.We can keep the current CDW Statistics report format desired.This need not be done through the Requester - this co...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct API Independent From C:D Server

We are attempting to use Control Center to manage our instances of C:D and Control Center connects via the C:D API. Some of C:D instances sit in different datacenters behind a load balancer in an active/inactive state. We would like to be able to ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

silent install script doesn't have a client (or server) only option

Connect Direct for UNIX silent install only has one option to install the client CLI and the server component. The silent install script doesn't have a client (or server) only option to install.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Option for formatting XML in File Details Tab

Input and output documents in XML are difficult to read when not formatted. Current options allow you to specify a character and break on it, but the closest you can come to formatting XML is using the > character and that doesn't put element n...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Enhancement to PGP Xprocessor functionality

Currently, The PGP XProcessor requires the following fields as input. The XProcessor Driver will look up the fields using the Profile Name and pass that data to the Utility class. Fields for Both Inbound and OutboundThe following fields are requir...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Attach Documents to Automated Emails

We would like the ability to attach documents in auto-generated emails.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Email Template - Dynamic data fields mapping

We would like an updated email template matrix. In this matrix it should include the email template name, email template usage definition, and the data field mappings. In each template different index numbers insert partner and sponsor specific in...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add partner admin when original partner admin has not registered yet

Currently, it is only possible to send the registration email and the original activity roll-out to one partner administrator. We would like to be able to send the initial registration and activity roll-out to multiple users. Currently the alterna...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

File Picker Requires Radio Button Pressed

Currently, file pickers require the radio button to be selected. It takes much longer to click the exact radio button. If anywhere within that row is clicked, the radio button should select.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration