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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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Mapping, Transformation from/to Excel

Excel is becoming the usability standard for structured data. On many occassions the CSV file can't be used and formatted in Excel, so natively Excel is being used to exchange data.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

BPN Rule duplicate validation to avoid conflict in different files handling.

GISHI Orcharstration System does not have the validation to cross verify the duplication of existing rules, due to that, Implementation or Support Team creating the new duplicate rules for handling Customer or Partner new enhancements and it cause...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Allow page refresh on any page within Store Engagement

If you perform a page refresh via the browser or code, it loads the default Store Engagement page and you lose the view of where you were. It would be useful to allow a page refresh within any page of Store Engagement to reload the current context...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Excel Adapter - When importing an Excel spreadsheet. Use the first Row as the Column Names.

When importing an Excel Spreadsheet as a type tree, the importer creates a type tree with Generic Names : ie . COLA COLB..... If the importer can have an option to use the first ROW as the Column Names, then when the type tree is created, the Colu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

PEPPOL AS2/AS4 flows: MDN should show up in Inflight Status event

In PEPPOL, why sending a file via AS2/AS4 to recipient AP via B2BAC. The Inflight entry is updated with Accepted event, but it doesn't show up the MDN copy which we received for the message. If MDN is visible, we can trace the errors in more faste...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Implement config or variable to enforce DGADBATC to use specific tcp stack in batch

We're using batch utility DGADBATC in a multiple tcpip stack(cinet) environment and would like to have a parm variable or other config option to specify the utility to utilize specific tcpip stack. The standard options like : //CEEOPTS DD * ENVAR(...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Ability to edit SLC name

Currently if a user wants to change the name of a SLC, it must be duplicated and then a new name can be given and the original slc can be deleted. The SLC name needs to be an editable field to allow updates.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Remove the validation of the X520SerialNumber in the PKI-J toolkit

An error occurred when updating a certificate for a client with a Serial number too long issue. Certicom found that certificate is not valid and cannot be used since the X520SerialNumber contains more than 64 characters which violates the RFC.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Limit the version number for resources

There should be a way/property to limit the number of versions for B2B Integrator artifacts like Business Process, XSLT, Maps, Code Lists. Currently we can have as many versions as created for each of these artifacts and need to manually clean up ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Support to Rearrange Columns in a Table

Columns can only be inserted at the end of a table. Sometimes a new column has to be added in the middle of the table which requires requires existing columns be deleted then recreated in the correct order. The ability to either rearrange columns ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration