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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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Slient Installation for Connect:Direct Client Only

Current silent installation only support server and client option. Please add installation option "client only" for silent installation / upgrade.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Secure Connections - Key/Certificate Management

Currently with Control Center a keystore and a truststore have to be setup in order to allow secure connections. Once both have been setup, the configCC.bat or configCC.sh has to be run in order to tell the Control Center application the path loca...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Provide expected collection details via invoice APIs and OMS data prior to collection going through.

When an invoice fails to be collected due to payment method no longer being valid, invoice is in status 00, and there are multiple payment methods on the order there isn't any way to tell what amount is expected to be collected per payment method ...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Request Control Center to support Korean file name displayed correctly.

Korean file name transfer between ConnectDirect works well. And Korean file names are displayed correctly in the Connect:Direct log. However, Korean file names are not displayed correctly in the Control Center. Please refer to Case TS002022528 ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

add column community in the report

Add the column community in the report Sterling File Gateway Route Detail by Producer Report and Sterling File Gateway Route Detail by Consumer Report
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Update Adapter log in SSP 6000 just as SSP343

To identify the IP or Subnet to be whitelisted. Hi Team, There is a difference in the way the IP/DNS are getting logged in the Adapter logs in SSP 6000 than SSP 343. This has become an issue as we are not able to differentiate between an IP/...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Is a defect

Connect Direct Unix and Windows: alternate IP addresses, round robin and non-round robin, controls

Many shops have and participate in disaster recovery exercises. We want to indicate that a particular alt comm IP not be used unless we manually update a configuration file or through Control Center. Currently Connect Direct Unix and Windows do no...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

Support(or Equivalent) API for deprecated - getInventoryAlertsList

We have a requirement to look for the ONHAND inventory of a specific ShipNode. Since this data is already available in the yfs_inventory_alert_detail table, getInventoryAlertsList suffice our requirement (Note: getInventoryAlertsList API has ShipN...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

ITX 10 Design Server import into B2Bi (no ITX-A installed)

We need something in the Design Server to help us deploy the .sl and compiled maps to a B2Bi Server (ITXA is not in use here.)
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 3 Functionality already exists

Increase OOTB YFS_REPROCESS_ERROR.ERRORMESSAGE columns size to 5M

The current YFS_REPROCESS_ERROR.ERRORMESSAGE columns size is only 1M and is bit small to handle a big message when dealing with dataload related tasks. Under error condition, customer is seeing large number of exceptions in the log indicated -302 ...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release