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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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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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Projected Demand Widget

Our clients have been asking for this functionality independently and every time they see Change Request module they ask "can a user submit a forecast? that can be updated in the record?" Currently that is not possible.
10 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Have an option for Items List View "Notes" icon be visible for Item Notes only

Currently the "Notes Icon" in the Items List view is intended to let the user know if there are relevant notes for the user, however notes are created every time an item is submitted through workflow, so many items present as having a "Note", when...
16 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

CDWindows Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Official CDWindows product support for the Microsoft Windows 2025 OS , for future/standard lifecycle management purposes and continued OS supportability.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

We need an ability to create user name upto 60characters and email address upto 68 characters in B2Bi

We have a requirement to onboardi-ng partners with the user name upto 60 chars and email address up to 68 chars, and currently we noticed b2bi only allows 36chars in the user name field and 64chars in the email address field, and so can you provid...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Remove/hide the IP address (other address) from the transmission copy step screen.

Request for enhancement for Batch Operations: The Batch Operations team manages file transfer for latency and errors 24x7/365. Part of this process is sending a screenshot to the client, vendor or internal team to work through getting the failures...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add custom filtering to the advanced filter option in the Historical Information Widget

Currently the tables within the tabs of the Historical Information Widget (form views) are able to be sorted but the advance filter option is very limited to only a date range or a (seemingly) random single data point. In my case the data point av...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

API to Monitoring download data without logging in

We would like to automate the monitoring process. It is very difficult to login to SST every time and navigate to Monitoring Menu, select all the option and see the very disappointing charts. It would be very useful if we could download the monito...
about 2 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Add Certificate Authentication capability to the CD Web Services REST API web interface (swagger).

CD Web Services supports certificate authentication for the web UI and also for REST API calls, but the provided web UI interface for testing REST API (swagger, path is cdws-doc/signOn.html) does not. This makes it difficult to design and test sol...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Send record length and block size larger than 4050 on HPNS Connect Direct

The record size when it worked was BLK Size = 27944 and RECL = 3992 it was changed to BLK SIZE = 21742 RECL= 10871 and then the job fail to completed and abend in NDM
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 8 Future consideration

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