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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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Increase VALUE column length from 100 characters to 255 in ACT_NON_XFER table.

The reports regarding table ACT_NON_XFER in the Sterling Integrator Database, show incomplete information. The VALUE column is capped at 100 characters, resulting in incomplete visualization of values such as mailboxes. We are suggesting to change...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Add B2Bi REST API audit logs

B2Bi Rest API is becoming common in several solutions but there is not a proper audit log file or report to verify information like " USER - ACTION / API - TIMESTAMP" It is difficult to understand what is actually being consumed, by whom and how o...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Putaway destination location screen to show location/quantity view

While doing putaway and selecting destination location where item should be put away to, a view showing the current locations where this item is already present in store would be useful on this screen. Along with the location, quantity available a...
5 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Future consideration

Compliance Requirement

We have a requirement which needs your help with the possible solutions from the Sterling Secure Proxy application with minimal impact (post deployment). Here is the requirement: There is a portal called Connect portal where partners login with th...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Allow ICC to authenticate users via group membership (eg. using SEAS)

Typical enterprises do not define individual user accounts and groups to every application, as is currently required for ICC.Instead, user accounts and groups within an LDAP directory (such as Active Directory) are used and the applications recogn...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

Perimeter Server Monitoring

Please add alerting in Control Center Monitor if Perimeter Server/Servers is/are down when SI comes back up. Currently there are events generated if Perimeter Server goes from enabled to disabled status and connected to disconnected status when SI...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Add support for FASP in Sterling B2B Integrator

support for FASP protocol require in Sterling B2B Integrator
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Future consideration

Configuring the SEAS to only respond with (UserID & Destination Indicator) in response to SSP and forward the Authentication request (Password/SSH Key) aganist/to Sterling integrator local store?

The process/flow will follow the below steps from (User to SSP to SEAS to SI) Step 1 - User Authentication request comes from SSP layer to SEAS; Step 2 - SEAS validates the user against connected AD and return only "UserID/Username && Dest...
over 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration