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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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Implement Secure UDP for Connect Direct File Agent

Our internal security standards want all traffic to be encrypted. Currently, File Agent uses standard UDP (SNMP) to send messages to Control Center. The goal is to have this traffic encrypted. We are being told that in a couple years the PCI DSS s...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Phone Number field should be limited based on Country

In the current UI, we were planning to modify the phone number field to accommodate the phone numbers in each country we ship to. We would like for this to be OOTB in the new UI so no customizations are needed.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway UI - to add an extra option "Both" for Authentication Type in User Account in Partner creation

In Sterling B2Bi UI, while User account creation we are having options Local, External and Both for Authentication Type. In Sterling B2Bi UI, if we opt option "Both" for external partners with whom we do password based authentication, and if we do...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

Add Window Tolerance in Minutes capability

Currently in Control Center slc window tolerance, the value is in hours. Although a window tolerance of zero can be selected, a user may want a tolerance that is less than one hour, but not zero. There may be a need to monitor a file for timelines...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Audit logs should be created when a CD or B2Bi node is Paused/Resumed recording the ID

In production situations node monitoring by Control Center is critical for alerting on failures. Currently someone can pause monitoring and we have no way of determining who did so.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Email Address should not be a Hyperlink

In the old UI we had to customize the email address so it was not a hyperlink. In the new UI we would like the email address to be string value OOTB.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

Disable "Add Payment Button"

In the current UI we had to complete a customization that disabled the add payment button so that users would not attempt add a payment to an order. In the new UI we would like this to be OOTB or easily configurable.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 3

Shipping Service vs Shipping Method

In the previous UI we made a change to have the UI show the shipping service instead of shipping method. In the new UI we would like it be "shipping service" OOTB instead of "Shipping Method".
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Not under consideration

Show price customer paid in Order Summary

In the old order summary UI we had to make a customization to show the price the customer paid vs the price of the item. In the new UI we would like this to be OOTB or configurable.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 4 Not under consideration

Copy to Sharepoint UNC path using WebDAV@SSL protocol instead of SMB/CIFS

currently C:D can copy to Sharepoint shares only using SMB/CIFS protocol we need to copy to a Sharepoint share which is accessible using WebDAV@SSL protocol \\our.sharepoint.local@SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\abcxyz\Shared Documents\destination-folder\
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration