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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...

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B2Bi using Document Object Model (DOM) for XMLDsig requires a lot of RAM to handle payloads

Customer having a problem with XMLDsig where B2Bi is using Document Object Model DOM to handle XML payload by design. The issue is that it requires 2GB RAM to handle 130 MB payload. This is just for one file. The reason is that B2Bi processes in m...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for SEAS

SEAS currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a new instance of SEASand its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful to kn...

RHEL8/RH8 Support for Sterling B2B Integrator

End of Support With the "End of Support" notification for SI 5.2.6 recently announced, preparation to upgrade to SI 6.0.0 is essential. SI 6.0.0.1 currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installi...

More Flexibility Needed for Control Center Web Console time out.

I know that in Control Center 6.1.3, the maximum amount of time for the Web console is 30 minutes. Please add an enhancement that gives administrators more flexibility in expanding this beyond 30 minutes. This is needed for our shop because the Ba...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

FTP Client Begin Service to support _ENCRYPTED password

Custom protocols in FileGateway can include _ENCRYPTED as an option on password definition. However, the FTP Client Begin Service does not support passwords which are encrypted by this method
about 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Delivered

TX Email Adapter support for SMTP authentication.

The email adapter needs to support the authentication features of Enhanced SMTP. My shop switched to use of ESMTP nearly 3 years ago. I have to have my TX servers whitelisted by my IT Security department on our internal email server because all em...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Delivered

Make sourceTs and updatedTs fields visible in Get Supply and Get Demand API Responses

As an integration consultant, I need to be able to see when the supply and demand for an item was last updated so I can confirm whether or not information is flowing from external systems to IV. The sourceTs and updatedTs will help when performanc...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Allow a read-only user to make changes to read-write fields, but not Commit

We have clients like EGA, where we're seeing they have hundreds of read-only users, and only a few read-write users entrusted to commit (save changes and export). Read-only users are mostly maintenance stakeholders part of the workflow process -- ...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

Add option to delete custom fields or reset objects

Sometimes there is a need to remove some custom fields from the object views. Currently if a custom field gets added to an object, even by mistake, there is no way to delete that field until and unless all objects are deleted. This is a very inef...
over 4 years ago in Supply Chain Insights / Operations Center 0 Delivered

HIPAA 831 type tree - to be added to to Healthcare pack v10.1

We have a business requirement for HIPAA 5010 - 831 transctions. Looks like thats available in supply chain pack. Request to add the same to Healthcare pack. We are @ Healthcare Packv10.1 ITX v9.01IIBv10.x Thanks Ahad Mahamad
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Delivered