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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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Customizing user web interface.

We want customize user web interface with some predifined templates, to set by default for a user and/or roles. Goal is to set columns in a predefined order, and remove the unwanted ones.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

S+ installation: auto-fill parmfile passphrase

There is no need to fill in a passphrase that will never be typed again. The installation process should automagically create a passphrase instead.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Delivered

Signon from Connect:Direct Fileagent with JCU-File

We have hundreds of fileagents running and every time the passport changes on the target server were Connect:Direct resides we have an enormous effort.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Enhance Windows Connect:Direct Requester Application to allow granting granular permissions to Windows C:D nodes.

Allow Read Only, Update or No Access permissions to:• Netmap• Initparms• Functional Authorities• User Proxies o Change Current Passwords o Add New
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Allow sponsor to deactivate and remove a partner

Allow the sponsor administrator to deactivate as well as remove partners from their list of partners.

Allow File Agent to be a selectable CDW component for Control Center Director upgrades.

When we run our CDW installs/upgrades, either via manual or automated installations, we do not choose to install the FA component. When we've attempted to utilize CCD as our lifecycle management tool, it automatically installs the optional FA com...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 4 Delivered

Move aggregation of Resource pool capacity consumption to asynchronous process to reduce locking

As of now manageCapacityReservation/reserveInventory/reserveAvailableInventory API calls are locking YFS_RES_POOL_CAPCTY_CONSMPTN when capacity is reserved against node/date/shift combination. This slows down reservations when pick capacity enabled.
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Develop a compliance check for the 277CA

It is common for claims processor to do pre-adjudication business editing in addition to doing transaction compliance checking. The results of the pre-adjudicated processing are reported on the 277CA. Currently there is not a compliance map for th...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Delivered

Ability for a child item (keyboard) to belong to multiple parent items (Intel PC as well as AMD PC) at the same time

Ability for a child item (keyboard) to belong to multiple parent items (Inter PC as well as AMD PC) at the same time. It is common in the retail world that a product is bundled as combos in multiple permutation and combinations. It means allowing ...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Add POP3 SSL and or IMAP to TX Email adapter

POP3 SSL is useful to send and receive email using SSL , to securize data transmission by email as it will be encrypted as it is transmitted. Most activity sectors would benefit from this feature . For POP3 SSL , the certificates would be in the...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Delivered