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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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Allow custom OMS code access to DB Backup schema, same as what the data extract tool uses.

For requirements such as exporting inventory data or other non-transactional DB endeavors it would greatly improve performance and generally reduce risk to be able to access the backup DB schema in the production environment from OMS custom code. ...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow for FTPing files in and out of OMoC

There are times when it is much easier to have an actual file be loaded to OMoC or exported from OMoC, that isn't currently allowed. An example of import is data migration as part of go-live. An example of export, apt to why this came up, is runni...
over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Functionality already exists

Report availability at the Segment level.

Currently the monitorItemAvailability API and all RTAM capabilities report inventory at the node and item level, to some degree including tag information. The RTAM information doesn't have any references to segment. An example usage of segmentatio...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Blind Returns support in v9.5 of Call Centre Commerce

We would like to backport the Blind Returns feature in v10 to V9.5 of Call Centre. This requirement is critical for the business
over 5 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Not under consideration

Quantity Tiers to honor steps appropriately

Today For SKU 1234, When Qty Tiers are defined From Qty To Qty Price 1 10 100 11 50 90 51 unlimited 85 In a Quote/Order SKU 1234 Qty: 55 is priced as — Unit price 85 —> 85 X 55 It looks like the Pricing API program is using the low...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

In EBICS Client, ability to get both EBICS T and EBICS TS on a same FileFormat (SEPA SCT) with one Bank

In EBICS Client the offer definition doesn't allow to have different level of signature for one file format with a bank. This enhancement request is to have the offer at the Partner ID Level, and not at the bankID Level which is too restrictive in...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Is a defect

Ability to rename a windows server nodename or add an additional "alias" node name of sorts

In our environment we came up with the decision to use an alias node naming convention, where our customers create an alias address for a Connect Direct server i.e alias-name.domain.com. We take the alias-name part and use that as the Connect Dire...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Functionality to test profiles

We need some method to test a configured SEAS engine before integrating it with the rest of our environment. Currently we can only test it by pointing SSP to the new engine and attempting to log in. This means that we can't test the SEAS config in...
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release

EBICS Server / Client support of xml structures without ds: prefixes

As of now EBICS Server and Client is not able to parse XML structures without ds prefixes in some places, so the parses explicitly needs those. Where as the XML itself is valid against the XSD of the EBICS order types. We need to have the EBICS ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Planned for future release

GCM mode for SFTP

We are seeing increased reluctance from partner organisations to trust CBC mode, due to OpenSSH's withdrawal of support for this mode by default. This leaves Secure Proxy with only CTR mode encryption as a widely accepted option. To ensure that we...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration