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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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Need to support configuration for all protocols regarding forward proxies

A customer with whom I am working requires forward proxies for all protocols they use, in this case FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS. Their expectation is that Secure Proxy support these protocols both as reverse and forward proxies.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Planned for future release

Ver display on IUI panel

If there are multiple instances of different NDM ver running, it will be easier to identify if the IUI panel has ver displayed. Attached screenshot will give the idea of what i meant. In this the right-side box has ver hardcoded. if there is a pan...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

To add search critirea or add an extra status option in InFlight to check exclusively the reprocessed entries in InFlight

This idea is to identify and lists out the entries that are reprocessed in InFlight separately. We can have an option in inFlight through which we can find out the entries which have been reprocessed. This will help us in listing out the reprocess...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Functionality already exists

Remove SEAS dependecny for Control Center to authenticate to Active Directory/LDAP

Will avoid another product dependency to AD/LDAP authentication and this also saves another platform that includes server resources. Once this idea is implemented, customers does not need to maintain another servers for SEAS and resources to main...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Build server for OMoC clients

I am seeing lack of build servers as part of OMoC offering a big challenge with many client small & big. Today the client is responsible to setup this environment and whether they have an extended team to support their implementation or not, t...
about 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

CAPTCHA implementation for SFG UI Interface

One of our Customer (STATE BANK OF INDIA) raised the below security issue. They are migrating their SFTP partner to Sterling File Gateway. They have requested to have CAPTCHA option when partners uploading files via the SFG UI. Their requirement i...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Add Window Tolerance in Minutes capability

Currently in Control Center slc window tolerance, the value is in hours. Although a window tolerance of zero can be selected, a user may want a tolerance that is less than one hour, but not zero. There may be a need to monitor a file for timelines...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Audit logs should be created when a CD or B2Bi node is Paused/Resumed recording the ID

In production situations node monitoring by Control Center is critical for alerting on failures. Currently someone can pause monitoring and we have no way of determining who did so.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Permit for quota-free import of in-store TAKE SALES (not orders) for one-stop shop in customer order history

Orders are not a majority of overall enterprise-wide transactions, and the OMS is not expected to process them in any regard, ie settlement or fulfillment - This is all taken care of by the POS platform. As such, it is not of benefit for OMS to sp...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

GTIN based Inventory Availability and Scheduling in OMS CoC and Inventory Visibility

For our current client, inventory items are uniquely identified using UPCs(not to be confused with UPC in generic sense) and not SKUs, while the selling catalog identifies items using SKUs. These UPCs can change every year for the same item. For e...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release