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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...
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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Set up and track expiration of SSH public key in Authorized Key Store

Add more security to the keys, notification of expiration and renew them after certain period.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

ICC Database tables which hold summarized data can be partitioned

Encountering performance issues with control center due to having a requirement for a large amount summary data to be available. Given that some of the performance issue are due to long running queries, if the tables holding this data were partiti...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Adding in additional triggers for alt.comm.outbound

The idea behind this is to allow alt.comm.outbound to be triggered for other situations. Such as TCP timeouts after a session had been initiated.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Bulk download of orders and orderlines from Optimizer Explainer

The current Optimizer Explainer does not a have an option to export the orders, order lines and node details to be exported to an external template for further review and analysis, the limitations lead to the following challenges. Difficulty in id...
over 2 years ago in Intelligent Promising 2 Planned for future release

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to schedule on hand inventory publish for a set of DG’s or nodes

Currently, the IV events for inventory publish only include available units (supply - demands - safety stock). We have a need to schedule (intra day changes and nightly sync) the publish of ON HAND units for SKU/location level to certain external ...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Ability to schedule the publish of network level availability for a set of DG's

The trigger DgAvailabilityChange Event allow you to publish availability changes for all DG's within a tenant ID. This does not allow us to schedule the publish from within IV and also restrict the data publish to a subset of DG's. Within IV, we n...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Sponsor and Partner Admin can update the Partner Admin to an already existing user or a new user

No description provided
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration