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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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VISA needs support for Refund Authorization

VISA has a new mandate regarding refunds: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents/new-purchase-return-vbs-10-apr-17.pdf According to this, retailers/merchants are required to make a refund authorization call to VISA before the...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Apply / Resolve Holds feature missing in Store engagement

Costco is migrating their business from RCP SOM to Store Engagement. We are missing Apply / Resolve hold feature for an order - which is widely used by store associate today in case they want to enforce / bypass and proceed with the order processi...
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to generate/expose OpenAPI specifications for OMS APIs

This idea if implemented can be used by developers, ISVs and clients to refer to API documentation, usage and testing purposes to expedite development and testing purposes. Some of the applications used for system/ application integration like IBM...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

CIphers configuration for Connect Direct Web Services

Connect Direct Web Services configuration should allow to limit list of allowed ciphers. Similar functionality is present for protocol configuration under "server.ssl.enabled-protocols”. Support for similar parameter e.g. "server.ssl.enabled-ciphe...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Compliance Check map to include the CTX segments in the 999 Negative Acknowledgement

the usage of the CTX segment in the 999 would utilized in the LOOP ID - 2100 - AK2/IK3 ERROR IDENTIFICATION. where the Business Unit Identifier can correctly show the transaction error. TR3 rules state "Required when the error reported in this IK3...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 5 Not under consideration

Allow RESTAPIClient to use the perimeter server for https vs proxy server

Currently the RESTAPIClient requires a proxy server IP/Port for https POST transactions. It would be much more convenient to be able to use the existing Perimeter server instances/ports.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Bandwidth Limiting Policies on HTTP Server adapters

The " Bandwidth Limiting Policies" implemented for FTP and SFTP should be extended to HTTP. I.e. maximum session per User to prevent the User to have more than one simultaneous session.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

JMS parameters in Inflight Delivery Event Details

When the files are delivered to JMS MQ at we are able see only the JMS queue in the Inflight Event details. It would be really helpful if other JMS parameter(SenderNonEDIID, ReceiverNonEDIID & DestinationProtocolSubject) also also being captur...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Request for Close all button in SPE Config:Center

The recent hyperlinking to the Next envelope name is very useful in Config Center. However, for validating one transaction set (Ex: X12 850: ST-GS-ISA 3 envelopes). I end up opening 6 windows as shown in the attached image and 6 times I need to cl...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration