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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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Two factor authentication for admin users

Access to Sterling Filegateway for admin users is via userid/password only. This request is for two factor authentication to be supported, via userid/password and RSA token
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

In-Flight Multi-file download button

This will effect all front-line support, mapping and any other support agents using In-flight. Right now, in order to download all files attached to a transmission, the agents have to manually download one by one. If it's possible, adding a downlo...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Hold based rescheduling to update ETD/ETS for scheduled order lines

There is a need for an automated rescheduling feature in OM. Especially on B2B, the requested ship date tends to be important and may often change for order line via integration. In these cases the order line should be rescheduled automatically. C...
8 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

MRO-IO Analytics - Report Scheduling

Client had a number of reports created - but was requesting if reports could be scheduled to be run with defined filters and a distribution list to receive the report via email with file type (PDF vs Excel).
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Schedule Server to Stop and Start through SST

Currently the SST allows to set the scheduling of the server to either Trigger at a certain time or to Start and Stop within the 24 hours. We would need the ability to schedule the Data Extract Server to be stopped during the weekily DB Reorg bein...
6 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Allow External Authentication without create a local user

An user created for example in AD can use the SBI console (or ICC, SSP ...), only with external authentication, not being necessary to create a local user in Sterling. In other platforms the client has, the users just need register in AD, are assi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

REST API Server Adapter

Allow Trading Partners to exchange file using REST APIs. If we can have REST adapter similar to SFTP adapter, Partners can use REST APIs to post/get/list etc files to their mailbox. Current REST APIs in B2Bi for administration, management and onbo...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
12 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

No need of loading exiting Company list by default in Config center

No need of loading existing Company list by default in Config center, this can save lot of time of developer, instead of that, we can add give option to load button.
3 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network 0 Future consideration