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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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APIs should be idempotent

In distributed application architecture, if the APIs are not idempotent duplicate data issues can occur. e.g. duplicate requests for Reservation blocks inventory for other customers.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Sterling External Authentication Server High Availability Scenario Failover Mechanism Needs

Hi, We would like to extend the options of failover scenarios in SSP-SEAS integration. In high available configuration, where there are two active SEAS, when one of the servers are down, the other takes over the others responsibilities. However,...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

SSP support on Windows Server 2016

Hi We are upgrading all our Windows OS server to 2016 in our environment, and we noticed the SSP doesnt support Windows server 2016. Can this request be looked into urgently. Thanks Sathish
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Delivered

AS2 Support for AES256 Message Encryption Algorithm

Sterling B2B Integrator AS2 currently supports only Triple DES Our partners are requesting to support AES encryption algorithm. One of the key partners is going to decommission support for triple DES by September 2018. This support for AES is very...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered

Transit Time flexibility for Postal Ship Method

Enhance Optimizer to support dynamic (and more precise) transit times for the Postal shipping method(s). The goal is to more accurately reflect actual expected transit times since some delivery areas (e.g. rural) may have longer Postal transit tha...
almost 6 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Product Functionality 0 Delivered

Order Optimizer reporting to identify sourcing influencing factors

Add Order Optimizer reporting to communicate to users what factors influenced the sourcing decision for individual orders (or order lines). This may include capturing and retaining details about the selected node as compared to other potential can...
almost 6 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Reporting 0 Delivered

Support for MS SQL 2016 and 2017 (and 2014 compat mode)

Requesting support for MS SQL Server 2016/2017, including support for the SQL Server 2014 compatible modes.

Control Center - Self Performance Monitoring

We can monitor log files to account for this shortcoming to catch it while it is occurring, however, we would ideally be using the monitoring built in to application (Control Center) to discern when the application is in a distressed state.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

C:D 4.8: Add support for Windows 2016 core + clustered environment

At the moment, only Windows 2012 is supported in a core and/or clustered environment while more and more customers will do the move/upgrade to Windows 2016. In the actual context, the market tends to secure more and more their environments. By usi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Delivered

Add RequestType UnprovisioningRequest for each protocol (Unprovisioning API)

There is no way to unprovision a setup in SFG from PEM currently. This is a common request from clients. Following the PEM architecture of the codelist integration with SFG there should be a "Delete" configuration which then initiates an unprovisi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Delivered