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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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Provide Application Security Logging

Based on case TS020418213 and meeting with Rishabh Jindal it became clear that currently Connect Direct for windows is not able to provide application security logging based on the requirements of ABN AMRO internal policies and standards. We would...
22 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Delivered

The credit card industry has always has PCI as an auditing group or tool to ensure the safety and accountability when files containing card holder data is ported from end to end sites.The idea is to introduce comprehensive PCI reporting of actions taken within the connect direct application to update, modify, delete and add new items by an administrator.

The credit card industry PCI audits are becoming more intrusive. These audit groups employed by credit card processing companies are doing deep dives into products that handle credit card data and or sensitive information. In the past, the file tr...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 4 Delivered

Get functionality to retreive data from codelist

Currently we have functionality to update the code list via API. There is already another RFE to create codelists via API. This RFE is to have a GET Functionality to retrieve data from codelists.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Delivered

Provide an option to view the screens using the MS Edge (Java) User Interface (IU) in a 'COMPACT' format to reduce the large amount of white space currently on the screen.

It would be very useful for anyone using the Java UI for Sterling Connect Direct to see more information at once instead of scrolling up and down just to see one piece of information.It would be especially useful using the 'STATISTICS' enquiry bec...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

Audit logging to support PCI requirements of ADMIN users and their ACTIONS

From a PCI perspective our people want Audit logging of whenever a user with ADMIN rights updates something in Connect:Direct whether via Secure+ or in the NETMAP or the Functional Authorities or Initparams. Whatever an ADMIN has rights to update,...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Delivered

Create Code List via API

Currently we have the ability to update the code lists partially or fully. However, the create and update can be done once the code list is manually created in ConfigHub. The requirement is the ability to create the code lists via API. We can have...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 2 Delivered

Pass status message to customer in case of API errors

Currently when an API is invoked, the API response can be passed from the API Gateway to the GIODE when a success response is received from the API. The API response cannot be passed to the GIODE in case of errors. The request here is to enhance t...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Delivered

Using the MS Edge UI make the previous and next buttons static, or duplicate them at the end of the page to save scrolling up the page, having reached the bottom, to click 'next'.

MS Edge UI for Sterling CD. I the display screens for Partners for example, the left and right (previous and next) symbols < and > scroll off the screen when navigating to the bottom of the list. One has then required to scroll back to the t...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

The Edge UI, when viewing the details of a partner node where the Alt-comm outbound display contains 'long text', it will obliterate the Alt-Comm Information title and display further along the screen.

MS Edge UI for Sterling CD. The Alt-com outbound (display, not edit) obliterates the Alt Communication Information title and values if the Alt Communication outbound contains ‘long text’. It should wrap around the long text into it’s own field.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

Allow the validation of data in the Edge UI to ignore spaces between entries rather than issuing an error message indicating that the data is incorrect

It is useful because it is often better to use spaces after a comma to aid readability. This is relevant for the Alt Communication Information and Alt-com outbound where the validation regards a space after the comma separating out more than one e...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Delivered