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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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Ability to allow Control Center Director to update C:D / File Agent passwords

Many companies, especially financial institutions, have corporate security policies that require all application passwords be updated on a regular basis. In order to do this with the Connect:Direct (C:D) application, a human has to log in to the n...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Pause Monitored File Agents when Monitored CD server is paused

Currently when a CD server is paused and if the File Agent has been stopped, the File Agent shows a down status. When a server is paused, the associated File Agents should be paused as well.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Multi-UOM support in Store

Multi-UOM support with interconversion and a primary UOM. As an example, be able to receive as a case, putaway inventory by case and individual units that totals up to received qty, pick in different UOM e.g. dozen based on order or be able to bre...
over 4 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

Provide control over who can use the SNODEID parameter

This idea was previously raised for CDz CONDIRECTZ-I-8, however, it was informed by CDz L3 that the enhancement in CDz will not be able to work on remote Distributed CD nodes. Therefore, this request is raised for similar function on distributed p...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Sterling Control Center: Add an overwrite and delete option for Secure Plus trust/keystore cert locations

When SCC is in use for configuring Secure Plus certificates on a CD node the only option available is import. If the certs expire or an import was incorrectly completed there are no options to overwrite or delete the certificate information in SCC...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Add Dev Toolkit version check & download for SST Command Line Tools

Add a method / option to the command line tool to pull the dev toolkit version for latest (overall) or for a particular environment -- and show a version string. As a bonus, add a method / option to download the latest dev toolkit version. For bon...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

PEM should have an option of Copy-&-Paste the already created API boxes, XSLT boxes and Dialog boxes.

Currently, if we want to create same API dialog box twice then we have to create that from the scratch i.e., entering the same URL, Location, Calls etc. and this creates a big issue when we have to do the same API calls with extremely minute to no...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Adding a disclaimer before access dashboard and mailbox interface

When a user insert his credential in login page to access Sterling Integrator dashboard or Mailbox Interface page, should read a customizable message about the confidentiality obligations accessing the System, before to be redirected to IBM Sterli...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enable specifying account permissions on download orders for each user

There is no option for us to add accounts for a B2C file which we can do at the moment in Axway. For our current set up we give permissions to users by account numbers so they can only retrieve statements containing that account
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release