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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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    Enhance Object Store Client Adapters to connect through Perimeter servers

    The generic Object Store Client adapter, that supports connectivity to Azure Blob (and in future may support S3, GCP etc), is only allowing connections through the ASI nodes and NOT the Perimeter Servers unlike any other communication adapters (SF...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    specifying also issuing CA name of client authentication certificates in remote nodes

    when I define a certificate common name for client authentication in a Remote Node, there's no possibility to add the name of issuing certificate authority. this means that authentication will be successful for 2 or more different certificates wit...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

    Lightweight container option for CDU/CDW

    Enterprise customers often have many hundreds of C:D nodes which are installed on application servers so that they can exchange files for/with the applications. This causes challenges for evergreening due to change management requirements with the...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Future consideration

    Ability to trigger alerts when a certain type of EDI X12 document not received or sent within certain time frame

    It would be useful as we can do all the monitoring in Control Center rather than having scripts that we currently use.
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Automate the generation and delivery of a daily EDI activity report for specific trading partner in CSV/Excel format

    Details of Ask Generate a daily report listing all inbound and outbound EDI messages on daily basis. Currently Customer is downloading report from InflightSearch Output format: CSV/Excel Customer is looking for all columns name which are available...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Needs more information

    Master Data Governance functionality

    this feature was advertised for Q1/Q2 2025 but has not been delivered and no information about the delay exists anywhere, is this coming soon?
    about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1

    Automating Work Queue

    In certain circumstances there would be an efficiency if a Work Queue could be automated, either completely or under certain conditions (Ex. If a material in the Min Max increase/decrease, if it matches a Business Impact selected, or for certain v...
    about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

    Provide Bundle Support across the board for SIP during pre and post fulfillment

    Currently, IV supports bundles by providing inventory availability based on the bundle components configured for the bundle item. However, other SIP functionalities like Optimizer and EDD do not support this. These feature gaps must be resolved to...
    about 1 month ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

    Ability to select TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 both for a node.

    Currently Sterling Secure Proxy has the ability to support mixed mode of TLS 1.1,TLS 1.2. We have some partners who need to move to TLS 1.3 where as other continue to use TLS 1.2. Hence need the ability to select mixed mode of TLS 1.2,TLS1.3 .
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

    hipaa compliance check support for EDI X12 824 transaction

    ITX healthcare pack currently does not support compliance check for EDI X12 824 transactions. We are using ITX healthcare pack for our implementation and have a requirement to perform type 1 to type 7 compliance check on 824 transactions.
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Submitted

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