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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...
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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...
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    Enhance Integrated File Agent (IFA) for Windows and Linux allow flexibility as to where the process scripts are stored

    Our team recently converted a Stand Alone File Agent to Integrated File Agent. The imported rules work fine. However, we discovered that when creating a new rule, the process script must be placed in the process directory. No other location is all...
    2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

    CDU/CDWS Container logging to standard output

    It is common, standard and recommended practice for applications running in OpenShift and Kubernetes pods to log everything to standard output, rather than to log files. I understand that users can keep logs on shared non-ephemeral filesystems out...
    2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Enhancement request for MassLiveSync agent in full sync mode to fetch data for a given date range

    Currently we know MassLiveSync Agent works in 3 modes, 1. unindexed - Fetch records having YFS_ORDER_HEADER.INDEX_VERSION=null 2. full - Fetch all records from YFS_ORDER_HEADER table 3. versionsync - Fetch only records which are having YFS_ORDER_H...
    4 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

    Transformations/Envelopes Please Remove Production facing Envelopes from view in CTE Next Envelope choice list.

    It is confusing and might lead to issues, if permitted to select a Next Envelope on a CTE envelope that does not actually exist in CTE. For example, in the screenshots attached, when searching for a next envelope, the list provides 4 GS envelopes,...
    4 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

    Support Dynamic/Managed Passwords for Oracle Database Accounts in IBM Sterling Secure File Gateway (SFG)

    1. Problem Statement Currently, IBM SFG requires static passwords for Oracle database accounts used for configuration, runtime, and audit data storage. This poses security and compliance challenges in environments that require: · Regular password ...
    4 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

    Allow all decryption ciphers for OFTP according to the official Odette specifications

    We were told that the SI software is coded based upon https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5024#section-10.2 which only includes 2 ciphers for decryption and these are outdated. Companies are switching to a more secure cipher which prevents us...
    5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Allow SSP CM user role to be determined by an attribute returned by LDAP

    This will allow privileges to be dynamic based on temporary elevation determined by group. Users do not need persistent Admin authority and SEAS could determine whether or not user should be admin or operator based on LDAP attribute
    5 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    The backend service which connects CDSA adapters from SSP to B2bi does not load balance

    The backend service which connects CDSA adapters from SSP to B2bi does not load balance. Looks like the backend service is tied to only 1 particular sfg-asi node at a time and when the adapter goes down on that B2bi node, inbound connectivity from...
    7 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Add Change Description/Comments on imports completed through Jobs

    When using the Jobs import process to load a new version of a map or code list, there needs to be a Change Description/Comment option to be able to put in details or a case#
    9 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Submitted

    Enhancement request for creating multiple Writable Indices per Month for Order Service

    Current Order Service (OS) architecture restricts data ingestion to a single writable index per calendar month. Given our high-volume customer requirements of processing upwards of 3 million orders monthly (including sales, returns and purchases)—...
    10 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

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