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Certificate Management Automation

The CA / Browser consortium has voted to reduce the certificate lifetime down to 47 days over the next 2 years. The process to manage certificates in connect:direct is manual. This will become unmanageable to maintain manually.
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

Alert the support team when system has not received messages for a specific window of the day

We are looking for a alert that notifies us if no messages are received in the queue. Currently, we have an SST alert for 'Message In,' but it cannot be time-bound — for example, if no messages are received between 1 AM and 2 AM then alert us.
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Extra Cols in Table on UI Dialog

Table on UI Dialogs can have a max of 10 columns. Sometimes more than 10 columns are required to collect data from sponsors/partners. Please extend the number of max columns a table can have.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Increased character limit of Context Data

Currently, Context Data can only contain 10,281 characters. Some requirements and design require more information to be stored in Context Data. Alternate Solution is to store and retrieve from GenericData Configuration, but it complicates the acti...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Need to have End date option while turning on and off Node in Order Hub for non IV environments

Feature will be useful, where the scenario can happen to Non IV environments too
8 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Update outdated Struts jars in product

Current version of Struts v2.5.33 included on Sterling Order Management product is obsolete and not supported any more. It contains known critical security vulnerability (fileUpload), but also might contain other ones which are not revealed. It pu...

Export and Import Secure Plus Parameters - Connect Direct UNIX and Connect Direct Windows

To my knowledge, there is not a method of exporting and importing Secure + parameters from one server to another.
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 9 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration