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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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The 'To Date' in the Issues and Receipts window ought to reflect the latest system update date, not today's date

It's not intuitive and has confused new users that this 'to date' shows today's date -- and doesn't as easily cement their understanding that system updates are monthly (where Delta updates aren't applied) especially when validating data with thei...
about 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Integrator supports 16 characters for Connect Direct Node name and would need PEM as well to be supporting 16 characters.

when customers who are using SI wants to use PEM and they have nodes in SI with 16 characters but from PEM they are not able to. so it will help them to use pem if this is enabled in pem.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect

Double quotes in XML output display as (") in SI 6

SI602 and SI6103 can’t display double quotes(“) in XML output but display as " SI6 display double quotes as " *SI6.png SI525 display double quotes as “ *SI525.png
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Allow devtoolkit_docker/runtime/ApplicationManagerClient/client.jar to be downloaded directly from the SST

This is an issue for Mac developers after each cloud devtoolkit upgrade. The problem for Mac user is we have to rely on devtoolkit_docker/runtime/ApplicationManagerClient/client.jar to open the configurator. However, every devtoolkit upgrade, the ...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Functionality already exists

Enhancement of Trace File on failure

ITX being a robust product , there a strong feeling that when we look in to the trace on failure of a file its being bewildered or unclear at which point of input data error has occurred. New option can be introduced showing only the failing value...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Net Usage in Where Used Widget

I have received a request from one of the users and I think it could be a good enhancement to the tool. I was asked if the Net Consumption could be added in the "Where Used" widget that can be pulled in the Items tab. Where use Widget This informa...
about 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 4 Functionality already exists

Support Wild Card DDE setups and Allow executing Basic Deferred as Preprocessor

Problem Statement: Issue # 1 - Deferred Enveloping (DDE) in SPE is not supporting WILD CARD setups today . It is expecting us to define sender/receiver/ala with definitive values. Config Center UI allows us to configure wild carded setups, but the...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

CDT Import and Export Ydk prefs save option in SST insted of manually copying

When we do CDT, we are pasting YDK prefs manually in SST, this may cause an issue due to human error. if we have an option to save this file in SST, will be helpful and human errors will be mitigated.
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

AzureClientForB2Bi adapter documentation

We are trying to connect to Azure blob using Adapter - AzureClientForB2Bi but we could not find any detail documentation about various file processing we need to do by connecting to Blob. Please help with documentation.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

getOrderList API should provide one unioned, sorted result set across active and history records

Today's implementation of getOrderList API makes two calls under the hood - one to archive tables and one to active tables (assuming archive switch was invoked in the call.) Almost *no* consumer of order history wants two separate lists, each sort...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration