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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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get the Rollout ID to check which activity rolled out

Currently in the PEM: Activities > Monitoring page we can't see any reference of which activity is being Rolled out, we just need to reply upon the Rollout Name provided and can't really see way to know which activity with what version is used ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Form Rendering and Dynamic Form Validation

Currently it is observed that in PEM screen there is no Dynamic Validation i.e. If there are multiple fields in one form and we need to show more/less fields depending upon the values user inputs in one of the field on same screen then it is not p...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Future consideration

Automation of In-Place Node Renames -- CDU/CDW

Various application teams are approaching us for Connect:Direct high availability architecture guidance and advice -- or have decided to strengthen their C:D architecture -- after initial software installation. This is resulting in hundreds of CDW...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Inflight - Search box for Trading Partner Names

We have 1000+ TP Names for few clients like Electrolux, Ceva etc. in inflight NA & EU. We need to search the TP names using the browser search box. Instead of searching through browser box, we can introduce a search box in Trading Partner Name...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

ValidateItem flag behavior same as PROD items even for PS/DS service item types

For a business requirement, don't want to have a defined PS item in OMS but still want to proceed with order creation and fulfillment. To achieve this, tried using a flag given by Product called ValidateItem as N at OrderLine level during order cr...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Envelopes Extraction from SPE System

We have an option to export Envelopes from SPE system, But at a time we export envelopes only 100 entries which are displaying on the page. If we need another 100 entries.. we need to go for next page... :( and spending lot time in manual effort. ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

BPN still have decommissioned translation POD's available under Target System drop down

BPN CTE and Production still have decommissioned translation POD's available under Target System drop down like POD 16, POD 20 till POD37.which sometimes create flow issues as these PODs are no longer available. If these decommissioned translation...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Include PREV link for pagination in the BTS Trace API

With the API as it is right now we can only page forward. If we would like to go backward we would need to store all the previous links on a stack, which makes the API not really stateless. Since you already provide the NEXT link would it be possi...
over 1 year ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Not under consideration

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 1 year 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 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Functionality already exists