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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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Publish SKU attributes as part of IV API's including ATP lookup and ATP publish events

In our ecosystem, we have systems that use alternate SKU identifiers (ex- UPCCode instead of SKU Id). Without the support for cross referencing SKU's between the various item aliases, additional lookup calls will be needed to get the Item id neede...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 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...
over 6 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 ...
over 6 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...
over 6 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.

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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

ConnectDirect for Linux on PowerPC LE

We have to install ConnectDirect on SLES PPC LE.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Develop a compliance check for the 277CA

It is common for claims processor to do pre-adjudication business editing in addition to doing transaction compliance checking. The results of the pre-adjudicated processing are reported on the 277CA. Currently there is not a compliance map for th...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Delivered

Different key usage of master key and its associated subkeys.

In PGP, the master key and its associated subkeys have different usage (SCEA). PUBKEY_USAGE_SIG S PUBKEY_USAGE_CERT C PUBKEY_USAGE_ENC E PUBKEY_USAGE_AUTH A In SI with GPG, we only need to define the master key for Trading Partner and GPG will ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Delivered

Add proxy authentication to the bulk upload utility

Without authentication, we cannot get out from behind our proxy. We use Forcepoint proxies. The script fails and we need to bypass auth or the proxy altogether to be able to get out. This causes a delay in our testing.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Import/Export 0 Delivered