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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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Adding ExtraInfo1 and ExtraInfo2 onto SPE reports

I can see that the existing BPN Reports has options for running reports to get the ExteraInfo1 and ExtraInfo2 reports but the SPE Reporting has not been given with this option. We need this information as we are storing some of the important det...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

ConnectDirect to throw message when it gets hung.

If ConnectDirect is hung there is no way to tell if it is, there must be a heartbeat check to confirm if NDM is healthy.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CX/ZOS Possibility to swap the logging so it is not increasing indefinitely

In CX/ZOS, the SYSLOG and other ddnames are increasing indefinitely. If they are Sysouts, which is convenient, this can cause Spool problems. It would be great to have the possibility to swap them, as Z/OS offers it for the ddnames JESMSGLG and JE...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

In the in-flight screen (managed services).. what I am asking for is just an additional drop-down selection in the 'My Teams Cases' for 'All' products. Two of the three case categories have a drop-down selection for "ALL products". My TEAMS category is the one missing this drop down option.

I would like members of my team to have the ability to look up PERs and data management tickets in closed cases. For My tickets, and Tickets I am added to.. the option is there.. just not on "My Teams tickets".. The only way for other members to s...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

CX SYSUE1 Refresh only if it has no errors

Actually, if there is errors in SYSUE1, a refresh is still done. That can hang a lot of requests in TRC=4608L. It would be great if there was a verification of the file before the swicth and that the switch be rejected in that case.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express 1 Not under consideration

Configuration Center:Disable Deploy button when while import is in progress .

Hi Team Please disable Deploy button when while import is in progress . We had urgent situation where even through the values are present in the Codelist map is unable to fetch the Values.So we tried to undeploy and Deploy it agian and it worked. ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Enable Doc Tracking tool > Views > SEARCH or DOCUMENT SEARCH to use a field input as Batch#

https://www.mailbox.cvg.stercomm.com/DocTrackWeb3NET/SearchView.aspx Business Transaction Intelligence (BTI) tool offers the user a batch# value while displaying the documents history. The user has no way of cut/pasting that into a place in Doc Tr...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

This is a test of adding support of Total_Volume allowing more than 14 characters.

This will benefit the customer.
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Slient Installation for Connect:Direct Client Only

Current silent installation only support server and client option. Please add installation option "client only" for silent installation / upgrade.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Connect Direct Unix and Windows: alternate IP addresses, round robin and non-round robin, controls

Many shops have and participate in disaster recovery exercises. We want to indicate that a particular alt comm IP not be used unless we manually update a configuration file or through Control Center. Currently Connect Direct Unix and Windows do no...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration