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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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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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Rich Text Functionality for Labels

Would like to be able to change the font style, size and color within one single label. Currently you are required to have multiple labels if you want different text formatted differently.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Add equivalent of cdai_verifyUpgrade parameter

For silent install, users get a chance to set upgrade options (parameters). One of those is cdai_verifyUpgrade which enables/disables step that performs loopback transfer after upgrade to verify if upgrade was successful. If loopback transfer is n...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

COC Data Extract should send deleted records to the FTP to avoid orphaned records in target data warehouse.

When we remove and add new data thru API or internal code, the deleted records get removed and not propagated to the target system consuming the COC Data extract data published from OMS. This causes additional records to be retained in the target ...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Enable FASP support via SSP Perimeter Servers

We recently learnt via a support ticket (as this is currently undocumented at the time of writing) that SSP is unable to route the UDP traffic used by C:D's High-Speed Add-On FASP through SSP Perimeter Servers. This severely limits the scenarios w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

DBCS directory/file name support in CD Process

Customers in China often creates directory and file name in Chinese. C:D doesn't support src/dest file path containing DBCS. Request to enahnce the C:D Win/Linux/Unix product by adding an additional parameter in CD Process to specify the encoding ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 0 Not under consideration

Upload UI component - make file details available for mapping

In a Dialog sceen, when a partner uploads a file using the Upload UI component, the only values available for mapping to an API or XSLT are the file contents in plain-text or Base64 encoded format. We should be able to map the file details to our ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 2 Planned for future release

Ability to see perimeter server status on SSP (i.e. monitioring - running/stopped)

Currently we're unable to see which perimeter servers are active on the Sterling Secure Proxy engines, this in turn can cause issues if duplicates are present. This would mimic the monitoring ability currently in place for adapters.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Adding a description Variable to the activity Roll Out email template

when an activity is rolled out, there is a field that proposes to enter a description of the activity. I would like to bring that description to the email we currently send out to each client when we have assign an activity. This email templates a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Intrinsic Symbolic Variables for other Connect Direct Platforms

Currently, Intrinsic Symbolic Variables is only available to CD z/OS and CD Windows. This should be made available to other CD platforms as well.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

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