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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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Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Protect SFG for event flood caused by large volume GET requests of very small fiels

When the File Gateway is hit by a very high amount of GET requests to download small files will cause an event flood. As these events are tracked in the visibility db, this may cause the system to "hang" - all threads blocked - as the visibility d...
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

Improve debug capabilities on failed maps

When a map is deployed and fails translation, it is very difficult to find out the reason of the failure. A clear report on what has been the failure, as the Translation service of SterlingB2B Integrator, that includes type or error, iteration cou...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Future consideration

External Schedulers (TWS/Tidal) trigger business process capability in Sterling B2B Integrator

Sterling B2B integrator is tightly coupled with internal schedulers for triggering business process. This is creating a bottleneck for few business requirements which has dependency on external schedulers like TWS,Tidal.. Need capability in Sterli...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Allow customization of LDAP ping "dummy" user

It is possible to configure a periodic "heartbeat" that checks the connection to External Auth, and it is also possible to have it attempt an LDAP bind (via the ea.ping.profile setting). However, when it does this LDAP bind, it uses a fake user ("...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Authenticate OMS users without having to preload the user base

Many clients of OMS do not maintain a user repository system that can send user load to OMS. Users will be present on the client's active directory and will can be authenticated and created in OMS during the authentication.
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Circuit Breaker for OMS Agent and Integration Framework

What problem are we trying to solve?Scenario when external integration point’s (Payment Gateway , carrier service or any external application ) service is down, oms agent/integration server transaction will error out and goes to reprocess error ta...
7 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Store UI: Requirement to capture user making inventory adjustments/cycle count approvals

In Store UI, when we perform inventory adjustments, user info who did the adjustment is not stored/displayed in store UI nor it is passed in the webhook inventory adjustment subscription. Impact: User will not be able to backtrack who performed in...
about 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Ability to allow Control Center Director to update C:D / File Agent passwords

Many companies, especially financial institutions, have corporate security policies that require all application passwords be updated on a regular basis. In order to do this with the Connect:Direct (C:D) application, a human has to log in to the n...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Enhance current usage of DTK to allow develpers testers to run multiple DTKs in parallel

Currently when you deploy the DTK you can only work against a single docker image. Often our developers are working on more than one project or indeed have platforms on different releases (eq QA, Integration). In order to develop/test they need to...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration