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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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Allow the FTP Server adapter to ignore or terminate connections from load balancer health checks

The FTP Server Adapter seems to accept connections from the load balancer health checking, and creates entries into the ACT_SESSION table for them. It seems an unnecessary task to perform and causes additional database activity. The Connect Direct...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

DeliveryLeadTimeUE should include order and order line reference in the input

Our current client implementation relies on product delivery on a specific date such as birthday. The product can only be delivered on that specific day, not a day before and not a day after. In order to achieve that OMS is relying on an external ...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Support Store engagement on airwatch browser

With enterprise mobile applications, most enterprises are using sophisticated EMM tools to manage device's security policy. VMware airwatch is one such EMM tool. To control the security policy, EMM tools provide their own browser e.g. Airwatch bro...
over 6 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Future consideration

Delivery charge should be refunded for carry orders with non pre-paid tenders

The business requirement is to support order level promotional discounts(which applies to the whole basket) for Carry orders. For Carry order with non pre-paid tender (not pre-settled) and having header charges as promotions passed in the create o...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Retrofit the Enhancement Request CONDIRECTZ-I-8 "Provide control over who can use the SNODEID parameter" to CD v6.1

This idea CONDIRECTZ-I-8 "Provide control over who can use the SNODEID parameter" was previously raised for CDz CONDIRECTZ-I-8, and it was informed that it would be available in v6.1. However, after the upgrade to V6.1, it was informed that this e...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SMS Compressed Dataset Enhancement with NDM

Visa would like to see Connect Direct transmission of SMS compressed datasets improved. Today, when we transmit a compressed dataset, if it is done with out coding the DCB parms in the process it always fails on the remote node with a space abend....
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Terminate the Process Waiting for Dynamic Allocation or Unallocation

CDz runs into temporarily unresponsive periodically 5 to 10 min or even longer due to the reason that SYSZTIOT ENQ exclusively held by CDz itself in which one process can't perform dynamical allocation or un allocation holding all other processes ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Gentran running on Windows 2019 Data Center, sorts documents by MM/DD/YYYY

Gentran running on Windows 2019 Data Center, sorts documents by:MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS It should sort as: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS In Windows 2008 R2, it used to sort as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
about 3 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Limit CM-BACKUP to Defined Number of Backups

This would benefit all users of SSP who have the configuration managers set to backup on startup within the System Settings CMSystemSettings global tab. Right now SSP creates an unlimited number of backup. This requires users to run separate scrip...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Adapter Containers: Allow container-specific JVM arguments

Right now, if you want to add custom JVM arguments to adapter containers (say for JVM monitoring), this is done via the Performance Tuning wizard. The wizard provides only one field for custom JVM arguments, which are then applied to all adapter c...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists