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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...
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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Including 277DRA transaction in Compliance Check

Our clients are seeking to check compliance on 277DRA transactions as well . Version - 5010

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

The support of T2S had been requesed in 2022 but was't taken into consideration. We are resubmitting this request to be reconsidered for the next ITX Financial Payments roadmap. Banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPa...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Delivered

More Flexibility in Segmenting Inventory

We have various types of customers shipping from our warehouses, and our partnershps vary. Some partners are assigned a fixed # of units of inventory, while others are assigned a share (%) of units in a specific warehouse. It is important for our ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Require T5_896_R and T5_897_C codeset jsons

Currently we have only pattern match rules for T5_896_R (ICD10 Procedure Code for Principal Procedure ) and T5_897_C (ICD10 Diagnosis Code for Admitting Diagnosis) and we don't have code sets available in HIPAA pack for code set validation. Kindly...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered

reading Source IP address from HTTP headers through for example X-Forwarded-For

Currently there is a dynamic routing feature to read incoming source IP address and base the routing based on this value. However many organizations dont support having source IP address hitting the SSP engine servers. Usually the incoming IP addr...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Delivered

Support SFTP as a file transfer option for deployments from IFD

My IT shop has moved away from FTP in favor of SFTP for all internal file transfers between servers. The Integration Flow Designer (IFD) within the WTX Design Studio only supports FTP as the sole file transfer protocol when utilizing the deploymen...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Delivered

Sterling External Authentication server (SEAS) Admin UI needs to be ported over from thick to Web client

System : Sterling External Authentication server (SEAS) Actor : MFT Administrators Presently to setup, install and configure SEAS we need to use Java thick client which is a Java WS application connecting on non-standard ports and requiring a Wind...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 3 Delivered

Automation for running the configCC in SCC

As of now we cant run configCC.sh/bat script, we have to enter the host details manually. Even we cant use silent file to provide these information.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Connect Direct File Agent: Add a search function to search on File Agent rule names

Please add a search feature for File Agent so if we know the File Agent rule name, we can search on it and then select. This would easier than using the scroll bar or using the wheel on the mouse especially if a File Agent configuration has numero...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered