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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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Update Adapter log in SSP 6000 just as SSP343

To identify the IP or Subnet to be whitelisted. Hi Team, There is a difference in the way the IP/DNS are getting logged in the Adapter logs in SSP 6000 than SSP 343. This has become an issue as we are not able to differentiate between an IP/...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Is a defect

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

Support(or Equivalent) API for deprecated - getInventoryAlertsList

We have a requirement to look for the ONHAND inventory of a specific ShipNode. Since this data is already available in the yfs_inventory_alert_detail table, getInventoryAlertsList suffice our requirement (Note: getInventoryAlertsList API has ShipN...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

ITX 10 Design Server import into B2Bi (no ITX-A installed)

We need something in the Design Server to help us deploy the .sl and compiled maps to a B2Bi Server (ITXA is not in use here.)
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 3 Functionality already exists

Increase OOTB YFS_REPROCESS_ERROR.ERRORMESSAGE columns size to 5M

The current YFS_REPROCESS_ERROR.ERRORMESSAGE columns size is only 1M and is bit small to handle a big message when dealing with dataload related tasks. Under error condition, customer is seeing large number of exceptions in the log indicated -302 ...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Timestamp for the .map/.mxl and the .txo are the same

User Logins into SPE or POD for loading maps.Search with Map Name , then click on Check out, Browser for .map and .txo and click Next,Select the latest map loaded and then click on Finish.Successfully loaded message is displayed.Alert/Notification...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1+ Control the number of processes, events, and alerts that are display when viewing All servers

In a busy MFT environment, it is very easy for the number of events, processes, and event alerts to reach 10,000. If a curious user clicks on "View all servers", the number of processes, events, and alerts can show to be over 10,000 for all server...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Support ITX on Alpine Containers

This would benefit those who want to use a smaller container image that is more secure with fewer Linux library dependencies.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Enhance authentication options for SSPCM API's

The SSPCM requires a username/password to be authenticated, requiring a static (or semi-static) password. This contravenes many organisations security policies designed to protect access. An alternate method of authentication would dismiss the r...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Mannualy Delete an Alert

Customer is one of the biggest bank in Brazil. They have the need to, as soon as the action handle an alert, delete the alert from the list
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release