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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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Please provide an option to retrieve or reset the admin password.

We require a solution to reset or recover the SSP CM admin password, which is essential for exporting and importing configurations across various environments.
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

retrieve the entitlement_mode for payloads and events records

When using the Trace API - Get Payload or Events - I do not get the information for attribute "entitlement_mode". This could be helpfull to check what entitlement mode is currently applied. This already works for Products, Locations.
4 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 4 Needs more information

Fix "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system" Error when launching Graphical Process Modeler

When launching GPM it produces and error message "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system". There is a workaround currently but this request is to have a permanent fix included in a future version of Sterling Integrator. The ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

Compliance map not generating valid XML message on edi_log.xml

edi_log.xml generated output compliance maps are not valid XML for both EDIFACT and X12. They are missing closing tag for EDIFACT & root opening/closing tags for X12.

Putting a limit for number of files being transferred in some time

we have decided to apply a limit on few of the partners not to dump more than 1000 files in 30 minutes. Otherwise they keep on dumping tonns of files in very short time (like 20 to 30 mins) which ends up consuming all the resources by this partner...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Column Addition to Item_Usage Tables

Please add the following columns to Items_Usage Table 1) Add "Projd_Usg_Dte" - When a user populates the Forecast Calendar with values, we stamp the item record with the date of the projected demand entry, but without this date also being populate...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

SFG API service to update Known Host Key

The current infrastructure in our org has close to 50k SFTP remote profiles configured and for almost 30% of them the known host key has to be renewed every 3-6 months or so. The current API services do not allow updates to be made to a known host...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration