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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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Protect or encrypt or sign all Audit records to protect or capture changes

Audit functions in CD are not consistently recorded in an immutable form so that attempts to alter them are inhibited. Many configurations in UNIX CD are not audited at all because the configurations are in plain text files with no tracking. All c...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Image Using Context Data - Display when developing dialog

When an image is selected through context data and then mapped to an image field in a dialog we would like the image to display in the dialog. When developing the page this would help us to design the page properly with the correct spacing and siz...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Execute APIs within dialogs

Currently a person's selection cannot execute an API call without exiting the dialog. We would like to add the ability to execute an API call within a dialog. This will allow us to cut down on the number of dialogs within an activity. This will he...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add conditional logic to entry/exit validation

We want to be able to create proper entry and exit validation. In order for this to happen we need additional conditional capabilities in these validation windows.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Not under consideration

PEM Cloud Application Outage Notification List

Currently, we have no way of knowing if there are PEM Cloud Application outages/issues. Having a outage email notification field will allow us to add a distribution list or a list of emails to contact us.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

AS4 flow resiliency updates

Enhancements: Alerting mechanism to identify if the messages stuck in Kafka queue. Increase the number of retries to other Network if there are any network failure's causing the messages stuck in Kafka queue.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Update CDZ by Control Center Director

Possibility to update CDZ through Control Center Director
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

HTTP Proxy enablement on B2B Mail client Adapter

With the addition of OAuth2.0 authentication on Sterling B2B Mail client Adapter all connections to the Microsoft exchange server will now happen on Micro Soft cloud, which means that connection earlier would stay within the company's network, but...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration