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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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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...
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Increase max lenght for Direct Connection input fields - InFlight Protocol setups

We have situations where Trading Partners want to host direct connections like FTP, FTPs, and SFTP. Currently InFlight limits the user name field to 25 characters. We are now encountering partners that insist on using user names longer than this l...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Red Hat Linux clustering/HA support

A number of clients ask about about HA solutions and clustering support for Connect:Direct with Red Hat Linux. I've had a search around, but only found the usual (old) docs on HA support with AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows. I was trying to find somethi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Identify Procurement assignments in YFSConfirmAssignmentsUE

YFSConfirmAssignmentsUE is implemented to validate the assignments with the external system (primarily inventory check with inventory source system). Is there any way to identify a line that is being procured from a vendor based on the fields in t...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

VISA needs support for Refund Authorization

VISA has a new mandate regarding refunds: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents/new-purchase-return-vbs-10-apr-17.pdf According to this, retailers/merchants are required to make a refund authorization call to VISA before the...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Compliance Check map to include the CTX segments in the 999 Negative Acknowledgement

the usage of the CTX segment in the 999 would utilized in the LOOP ID - 2100 - AK2/IK3 ERROR IDENTIFICATION. where the Business Unit Identifier can correctly show the transaction error. TR3 rules state "Required when the error reported in this IK3...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 5 Not under consideration

RPM for automated installation

We need a RPM installation package for Connect:Direct to simple deploy in our Cloud enviroment. The RPM must inform all dependencies for a automated instalation process (like Puppet).
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Inactive User Accounts Controls - Administrator and user Accounts

Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user accounts after a specified period of inactivity may result in unauthorized access, modification, destruction, and/or disclosure of confidential information
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Not under consideration

Inactive User Accounts Controls - Administrator Accounts

Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user accounts after a specified period of inactivity may result in unauthorized access, modification, destruction, and/or disclosure of confidential information.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Not under consideration

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over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

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