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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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Search by multiple order types simultaneously

Need an ability to search by multiple orders simultaneously. Currently its only allowed to search by a single order type ( Sales order or transfer order, etc )
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists

Want to drill down to order data (PO , MFG Order) from inventory screen

From the inventory screen , user should be able to see the orders( Purchase orders , sales orders ) that is causing the supply and demand. This is currently possible in Inventory console screens
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Extend the map compile timeout from its current preset which has been set to 120 sec

Currently, the ssftpdeploy process has 120 seconds for the map compile timeout as a preset value and few of our systems are timing out before the completion of deploying the msl. I would like to check on two options to resolve the issue - 1) If th...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Future consideration

Show number of records for Block-Mode-Transfers

This Enhancement Request is created following Case TS011846040 (Wrong Statistic Records in File Transfer between C:D for z/OS and C:D for UNIX) The problem is that the number of records is shown as 0 on the sending side in the Statistics for a ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow utility scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh to run in non interactive mode

Currently I'm not able to run scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh in the non interactive mode. There is no option to pass the multiple input passphrases to those scripts. Those scripts will also error out if I...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

collect ebics client messages from B2BI as a standard protocol

Today only Ebics server messages are collected by ICC. for EBICs client, nothing gets to ICC, and therefore ICC is not supervising and monitoring all standard B2Bi protocols. This has a huge impact as we can't use ICC as a central monitoring solut...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add multiple ICAP servers

Would like to have the option to add an alternate ICAP server for redundancy
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Red Hat Linux clustering/HA support

A number of clients ask about about HA solutions and clustering support for Connect:Direct with Red Hat Linux. I've had a search around, but only found the usual (old) docs on HA support with AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows. I was trying to find somethi...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Web Console must filter prior to displaying the stats

Every time I select statistics usinig Web Console, ICC does an initial search with no criteria and it takes more than minutes. After this initial search I can include criteria and make a new search. This approach makes a simple selection of statis...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Planned for future release

RTAM - Inventory Alerts - Save Suppy, Demand & Safety Stock inventory positions

As part of inventory publish, few systems are interested in ATP (supply - demand - safety stock), few other systems are in only (supply - demand) and few others are interested in only onhand supply. However, RTAM publishes only ATP and to calculat...
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration