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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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Add the ability to delete expired Secure+ certificates

When there are several hundred servers with expired certificates, it's extremely time consuming to log into each individual C:D node to manually deleted the certificate. The ability to delete old/expired certificates from Control Center will simpl...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Security Administration Report from SPOE administration

Using the ADMIN function to maintain entries in SPOE is basically performing security administration functions. In some environments auditors/regulators like to see who is performing administration and what changes they are making. Requesting that...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

EBICS order type - automatically splitting and processing of SEPA containers

We have a requirement to split the SEPA XML containers for customers from Ebics order payload file and process them individually
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

IDoc Control Record must contain tag EDI_DC40_U for Foreign Language to be in readable format within the SAP Environment

Changing the Control Record EDI_DC40__ (__ equals two trailing spaces) to EDI_DC40_U (one space and a U). Which when exported to a single file the output is okay, but the very first field in the record is 300, so the output = "EDI_DC40_U300" the f...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Control Center does not support the Secure connection with the SMTP server

I installed control center and I can't send email to my user reset the password. My relay only uses TLS protocol.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Support/document health endpoints in REST services

It would be useful to have actuator-like health endpoints in the product's REST and REST Authentication WAR services so that a gateway or load-balancer can gracefully work with the services. If these exist, just documenting them would be great.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Support Kerberos authentication for SEAS bind to ADLDAP.

Support Kerberos authentication for SEAS bind to ADLDAP.
over 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Future consideration

IV doesn't allow syncing negative inventory postion like GIV does.

When an Absolute sync is done for Item-Node combination with -ve value IV ignores it. Where as we have this functionality in GIV
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

IV doesn't provide ability to differentiate various shipnodes by ship node type. As a result events published from IV cannot be filtered and/or distributed over separate channels within the external consumer by ship node type.

Currently in Ship Node configuration only Delivery method configuration is there need additional ability to differentiate DC vs Store so we can define various rules based on Ship Node type
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Allow provided service ordered quantity more than defined standard capacity per day

When Provided Services capacity management solution is implemented, one important use case is missed. If our maximum per day servicing capacity is 3 units per store ( resourcepool) and customer wants to order more than 3 units, the expectation is ...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration