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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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Support HP-UX B.11.31 for SSP 6.1

Could you please provide support for SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31? A customer in the financial industry needs us to support SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31 because HPE offers the extended support for B.11.31 until Dec 2028. https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/servers/...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Provide an ACTIVE MAP report - need to see a report of top maps being utilized.

Helps us to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps usage.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Future consideration

Reduce the patch time by downloading the binaries prior to scheduled time.

In scheduled patching job , download the patch to CD server happens at the start of scheduled time. This dramatically increase the patching window and becomes un certain when the actual patching will start. The ask here is to download the binaries...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Planned for future release

Enable CCD to deploy patches in Iseries and Tandem estate

We have a significant tandem and iseries estate in the organisation. Following a CCD process to upgrade a patching on these platforms will create a standard CD patching across the estate.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

To increase the limit of 16 character names (SNODEs) in the Secure+

Good morning Most of our transactions used in our transmission central services must be secured. So we need to use Secure+. Most of our transactions are using DNS value so the CDZ limit of 16 character defined in the network map is affecting us. M...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Support a context specific CSS file to control the look and feel of UI dialog components

Add the ability for there to be a PEM context specific CSS file which could be updated by Sponsor Admins and would control the look and feel of UI dialog components within activities. This would require that the dialog components support the abili...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Provide housekeeping in PEM to clean up objects no longer needed

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Reservation auto expiry to generate reservation events

Today if the reservation expired due to the set time , there is no availability event getting triggered for the same. Due to this, there is no visibility of actual availability being published .
9 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Allow Order Mod to Add New Line with Different Ship To Address When Simultaneously Cancelling Existing Line

Account Managers need to perform multiple modifications to an order at once. 1. Create order with 1 line item. Order line is in Created status. 2. Change order by cancelling line 1, adding line 2, and modify the Ship To Address with Override=Y Exp...
9 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Generated columns to be supported in Multi Format Logical files

We have a new Gentran configuration that uses an external SQL table in Application Definition. This can be helpful for us since we have a standard is creating a table. We have columns that have a "Generated Always" attribute and we encounter this ...