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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...
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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SMART OPS MONITOR - Strengthen ops side of Product - Product which caters Devops needs

The world is trying to move to devops slowly. Today , If we take OMS side, who ever implements the product to a customer, they sell them by showing the ready to deploy code , development accelerators which helps customer to go to market faster wit...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

include the encrypt/decrypt (export/import) passphrase into the properties file for rest api calls

We were looking to find a way to automate updating passwords for some of our accounts within SEAS utilized in our connection settings. It prompts for a decrypt passphrase that we cannot seem to pass values through automatically via script and we w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Not under consideration

BPN Tool - improve Audit Log search to show more relevant results

We use BPN TOOL - Audit Log to identify what routing rules have been added, changed deleted. I found that when I searched for rule name containing "SGM" that had one of the assignments updated recently, it did not show me the updated rule. I had t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Add BCC functionality in the API sponsors/{sponsorContext}/sendemail.

Currently using this API we can send email to any number of recipients but the problem is that their email addresses are in TO section. Now, if the notification is for one specific customer only then it does not give any issues because even if the...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Need to read/write files to 3rd part encryption format/schema via an I/O exit able to utilize sub processes for the decrypt/encrypt step.

We would be able to read/write to encrypted devices having proprietary formats.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Converting a Global Mailbox back to Traditional Mailbox

It would be nice to add a capability to convert a GM to a TM if there is ever a need to revert a customer back to the Traditional Mailbox.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Retrieve Provisioner Activity details using API

The "Activity Services" APIs at /activities/ and /activityinstances/ are hardcoded to only act upon Portal activities. Attempting to use them to retrieve instance details of Provisioner activities results in 404 errors. The API needs to be able to...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 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.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

The need to sometimes have audit / trace created in the locations compiled in when using the REST API of ITX version 10

Observed that when Directory name is set as "Custom" and relative path is mentioned - Audit/Trace File is not created in relative path directory with mentioned name when audit and trace settings is set to "ON" and maps are triggered using REST API...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration