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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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Add "Session ID" for SEAS authentication attempts

In a high-traffic system it can be difficult to determine which log entries in the seas logs are related to a given authentication attempt. Currently we're forced to grep / search for the specific username /timeframe and then manually parse throug...
about 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

API response status of eInvoice in Peppol

Currently, if there is an error while sending eInvoices, SCBN will send a notification email to the main partner. The partner has to manually update the status of the eInvoice or inform the customer on the status via offline means such as a phone ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Native Variables in Connect:Direct Unix

We currently use some of the native Connect variables in: Windows for Windows, Windows for Mainframe, and Windows for UNIX. However, we need to use these same variables from a UNIX server and we are having problems. Examples:% SUBDATE1 and% SUBTIM...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy does not currently support the forward proxy

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about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 4 Future consideration

Customized Alerting Blackout Periods

We need the ability to set custom times for each node where if the node goes down it doesn't alert. We are looking to use Control Center to monitor multiple Connect:Directs throughout the company and a majority of the CD nodes have different maint...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Provide SUBMIT ESF=YES feature for CONNECT:Direct-Unix

On C:D-z/OS, an Extended Submit Facility (ESF) option (syntax is ESF=YES) exists for the SUBMIT command to allow C:D transmission requests to be queued up even when C:D is down on the z/OS system; the requests are executed later when C:D has come ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 0 Future consideration

Enable SIP IV Inventory consideration update in Order Hub (Custom Supply/Demand Match)

Currently Inventory consideration is not editable by Business users and is not allowing to onboard strategic Supply Integration with different Supply Type and make them considered for Promising after the reconciliation is complete
3 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Future consideration

API and Events to provide Fulfillable Availability (available quantity that are fulfillable) by doing sourcing rule discovery to get distribution group or nodes or node types to generate network availability

Omnichannel Retailers would require to show what is the available quantity that are fulfillable to their customers based on where they are getting it delivered to / collected from (regional sourcing), what are the various product attributes (such ...
3 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Implement Emails for proactively monitoring API and agent's performance.

Similar to what we have on SST for MQ alerts where we can add thresholds it would be useful to have options to add alerts around API thresholds, Agents response times. This will be useful for customers going into Peak to foresee any issues of agen...
4 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Database for IV

Need a read only database to connect to that shows all supply and demand records, quantities, ship nodes, sourceTs, segment info, etc. from IV. This will help with data cleanup and visibility. We have no way of knowing about stale data unless we q...
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration