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Ability to allow Control Center Director to update C:D / File Agent passwords

Many companies, especially financial institutions, have corporate security policies that require all application passwords be updated on a regular basis. In order to do this with the Connect:Direct (C:D) application, a human has to log in to the n...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Pause Monitored File Agents when Monitored CD server is paused

Currently when a CD server is paused and if the File Agent has been stopped, the File Agent shows a down status. When a server is paused, the associated File Agents should be paused as well.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

ITXA - Need SWIFT standards releases 2019-2022 and the ability for the TPUI to select the version in the STANDARD VERSION envelope parameter

SWIFT Network is validating from the 2021 Standards. Today, ITXA is only offering 2018 Standards compliance. SWIFT financial documents are exchanged by banks via the SWIFT Network vs going Peer to Peer to exchange. SWIFT Network requires the curre...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other / Trading Partner UI 0 Planned for future release

Ability to edit/change the SFG partner community

Currently there is no way to edit or change the SFG partner community once it is created within a community. It will be really helpful if there is an option to make that change from within the SFG UI.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Only fixed email templates can be used with API sponsors/{sponsorContext}/sendemail

Right now, we have fixed email templates within PEM which we can use to link with this send-email API. Meaning if their is a new need then the only option we have to change any of the existing template and no other way. Please see that we should h...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Future consideration

ITXA - SWIFT envelope creation for MT940 - Basic header block {1: field Session Number & Sequence Number are not created with a number value

Currently the Session number & Sequence Number are created with XXX and XXXXXX values which fails the Swift document.
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Planned for future release

ITXA - SWIFT envelope creation for MT940 - header block {2: is being created with '1', however, the Delivery Monitoring field is optional and not accepted with PRIORITY = N via SWIFT Network testing

Currently the Trading Partner UI does not have an option of 2 or blank when the user selects the Normal Priority in the Swift Envelope. The Swift Network either accepts a value of 2 or blank.
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 1 Planned for future release

ITXA Swift Support

Since the Swift Standards were deprecated in 2018, customer is wanting to use the SPEEnveloping service to Envelope MT940 documents and the support is not there.
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 1 Planned for future release