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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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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.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Intrinsic Symbolic Variables for other Connect Direct Platforms

Currently, Intrinsic Symbolic Variables is only available to CD z/OS and CD Windows. This should be made available to other CD platforms as well.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

Enhance AS2 logging to include TLS information

Currently, Sterling Integrator logs if the connection is using TLS. However, it is lacking the TLS family such as TLS 1.0, TLS1.2, etc.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Cognos reports extract through standard integration mechanisms

We have an inhouse alerting, monitoring and reporting capability that is dependent on receiving data from various applications. We are writing custom reports in Cognos reporting suite to access the data that is needed to deliver our requirements. ...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Functionality already exists

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

Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under 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

ITXA is allowing duplicate envelopes

ITXA allows users to create duplicate envelopes which causes enveloping and deenveloping process failures . Better to enhance ITXA product not to allow duplicate envelopes
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 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