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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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Custom Email Body option under Email Notification (ERN) in Config Center Tool in Reporting section

In existing Config Center Email Notification will configured to report the Customers/Partners on data failure's, communications failure's and according to Probable failure type in ERN level default template is there and that will fetch as body and...
4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

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...
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Provide option in configuration to set to OOB where OOB recommendations are greater than standard configured Service Level configurations.

This would provide greater availability while saving on purchasing costs, etc.
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub currently and is a good to have feature.

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub from Shipment summary screen. With Application Console getting deprecated it appears to be a good to have feature enabled on Order Hub.
2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration
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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CSV import for quoted fields

Currently Design Server has the capability for importing csv with quoted fields where option available to choose String or Custom CSV import. It will be great if we have similar import option in Design Studio to avoid manual errors while creating ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
almost 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
27 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration