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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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Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

FSA(File System Adaptor) creating folders Automatically

Currently when extracting a files using File System Adaptor, by default FSA automatically creates the folder if it does not exists. There should be a parameter using which I can decide if I want FSA to create the folder automatically or not.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

PGP Adapter : Enable support for different Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm

The OpenPGP adapter does not support all of the latest set of Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm natively. Below are the list of supported values Compression types (-COMALG) : ZLIB Encryption Algorithm (-ENCALG ) : 3DES , RIJNDAEL256...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Audit db query client

We have several audits that question access to db, especially the access to customer data and the ability to download PII data in bulk through this mechanism. We need a mechanism to Audit the SQLs run across certain tables which have PII data and ...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
11 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Data Limit Policy - generic

It'll be very useful to block bigger files than configured limit size. SBI could avoid failures due to an abnormal reception in terms of big files sending by an external companies. Now, SBI permits to stablish a data policy limits specifically to ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Password Vault support for outgoing Connect Direct for Windows transfers

There is a need to execute Connect Direct transfers securely as a User/Functional ID managed through Password Vault.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 9 Future consideration

Add Secure Plus statistics to the Microsoft Windows Event Logging Facility

Our organization is requiring that all Connect Direct statistics be sent to Splunk. However, it seems that Secure Plus statistics are not captured. I am aware of the Secure Plus logs that are created and we could probably get those sent to Splunk....
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Needs more information

Addidtion of Date Range for Workflow assignment

Addition of Date Range for Workflow assignment would be a Useful feature. It would be like a Process of Delegation for a certain time period.
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

ZIP adapter stores without path

Customer wants a zip file from two input files. I have the ZIP adapter working to do this: =VALID(PUT("ZIP", "FILE," + GETDIRECTORY(ZIPOut) + "output.zip, " + GETFILENAME(File1) + " " + GETFILENAME(File2), " "), "Failed ZIP") The two input files a...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Planned for future release