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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...
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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Cryptographic function used for TLS certificates storage should use SHA-384 or SHA-512 or POLY-1305

CA Certificates, Key Certificates and Private Keys are stored in key database file cdkeystore.kdb + STH file. In addition software stores the key database password in .keystore file and passphrase to the private key in .password file in C:\Program...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Under review

Code List Metrics - How often used, and when last used

We currently use multiple code lists in our environment. Over the years, these code lists have grown exponentially. Unfortunately, we have no way of easily knowing how often a row within a code list is used, or when the last time that row was used...
13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Create new field called Change Request ID and then add to New Trend upload

Creation of an new standard field for Change Request ID (CRID), then including the field is the template for Trend import. Currently restricted in regards to fields available to import within New Trend import (i.e. Issue Size, Business Impact and ...
13 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

We have refresh netmap in Mainframe Connect Direct and its not available in Linux connect direct

We had an issue with connect direct process, In the middle of file transfer client brought down the connect direct in primary server and brought up in the secondary. Since the process was interrupted and its keep retrying the primary server. Its n...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flow within CD/Z when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/Z initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/Z via ALT.COMM path(s).
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 9 Future consideration

Ceva Needs Status Messages captured on Inflight with Dynamic DOCTYPE values set from the Process Data

The Ceva Logistics has started new onboardings with JSON via new EDI foundation Project and A huge number of Onboarding are expected and this becomes their new normal. As part of it Ceva needs Status Messages captured on Inflight with Dynamic Send...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 4 Under review

Need a Deployment specific role in Self Service Tool to manager deployments in Production.

We need a role in Self Service that is only for People who will do deployment in Production. Currently we only have 4 types of Role in prod Developer (Production), Developer (Non-Production), Stakeholder and Administrator. There is no specific seg...
13 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Under review

Ability to view deployment history till last 1 year in Self Service Tool.

Need to have deployment history reflected for the last 1 year in Self Service tool.
13 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Under review

Specify our desired default settings for Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC Algorithm

When creating a new SSH Remote Profile, the Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC fields are defaulting to values that are deprecated (blowfish-cbc and hmac-sha1). I was told that those deprecated settings are hardcoded in the B2Bi application. We wi...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Enhance speremove-packs.sh script to remove entries from the database

Right now, we have speremove-packs.sh script, which can remove the ITXA packs-related files from the File System, and it does not remove entries from the database. In the existing process if a customer wants to remove ITXA pack entries from the da...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release