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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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CDWS - certificate-based authentication - CLIENT certificate differentiation

We use standard connection path for certificate-based authentication: CLIENT (for example curl command) -> CDWS (CD Web Services) -> CD (Connect Direct) Let's assume that: CLIENT uses client certificate with CNAME=cert1 CDWS server uses cert...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Reservation auto expiry to generate reservation events

Today if the reservation expired due to the set time , there is no availability event getting triggered for the same. Due to this, there is no visibility of actual availability being published .
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Need to build ITX 10.1.2.0 maps using Jenkins Pipeline and deploy in Linux environment

As part of our current process whenever we want to integrate ITX map with JAVA API, then we try to build any specific map in Design studio with specific environment like 'Build for specific platform' as 'Linux(INTEL processor). And move already bu...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Planned for future release

Improve the Secure + Key Certificates Report and Trusted Certificates Report

Please add the validity dates (start and expiration) to the Secure + Key Certificates Report and the Trusted Certificates Report. This is useful information that is often needed and would assist in the management of key and trusted certificates.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

comprehensive search facility in PR

We need a comprehensive search facility in PR compared to what is there now. There are many to search in the PEM DB via PR. We probably can use a series of API calls but that is cumbersome to use. So having more advanced search options in PR will ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Planned for future release

SSO and OAuth support for authenticating B2BAPI access

At minimum would need to able to use the SEAS SAML like tokens to allow authentication of APIUser for B2BAPI calls. Liberty Profile native supports both SAML /OAuth authentication and the current instance does authenticate with B2Bi so it should a...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Add Description field to API for Windows netmap add

The API in Connect:Direct Web Services does not allow for a 'Description' field when using the API for netmap adds. For Windows, it requires a separate API to accomplish this. The API for UNIX netmap adds has the Description field, so having the f...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Add a comments field in customization UI

There must be a comments field in customization UI while adding entries to customer_overrides.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support for Windows Server 2022

Hello, Since Microsoft is sunsetting Windows Server 2012, we are needing to upgrade our current servers. We would like to move to Server 2022 but it doesn't seem to be supported yet. Would you be able to tell me if you are currently working on cer...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem. cert auth is only available in unix and windows version. Our orgs have a large tandem nodes that are critical to organisation.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release