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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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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 3 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 3 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 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

Remove SEAS dependecny for Control Center to authenticate to Active Directory/LDAP

Will avoid another product dependency to AD/LDAP authentication and this also saves another platform that includes server resources. Once this idea is implemented, customers does not need to maintain another servers for SEAS and resources to maint...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Build server for OMoC clients

I am seeing lack of build servers as part of OMoC offering a big challenge with many client small & big. Today the client is responsible to setup this environment and whether they have an extended team to support their implementation or not, t...
almost 6 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

File Retention in Mailbox Post File Download in MyFileGateway 2.0

In the current state, MyFileGateway 2.0 does not allow for a file to remain in the mailbox post download. Looking for an option for files to not be invalidated/archived and remain in the mailbox for a pre-specified amount of days.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

ITXA - Need Support for the HIPAA_277CA_Unique_BHT03 Compliance Check Parameter

A new parameter - HIPAA_277CA_Unique_BHT03 - has been added to the set of configurable HIPAA Compliance Check map parameters in the Pack for Healthcare V10.1. This parameter allows Yes and No settings. For the BHT03 content to function effectively...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Add Window Tolerance in Minutes capability

Currently in Control Center slc window tolerance, the value is in hours. Although a window tolerance of zero can be selected, a user may want a tolerance that is less than one hour, but not zero. There may be a need to monitor a file for timelines...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Audit logs should be created when a CD or B2Bi node is Paused/Resumed recording the ID

In production situations node monitoring by Control Center is critical for alerting on failures. Currently someone can pause monitoring and we have no way of determining who did so.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Functionality already exists

Out of the box purge agent for clearing entries in INV_INVENTORY_ITEM_LOCK table

As part of the Hot SKU implementation, Lululemon has enabled granular locking at the Item / Node / demand level by adding following properties in Customer overrides. This has improved the performance of the system by reducing database row lock co...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration