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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 users to reload documents with a status "available" that have not been picked up in more than 24 hours.

This will provide users the ability to pick up documents that have exhausted the number retries allowed. Today, the only way to fix is by opening a ticket with support to mark the documents as "picked up" so that the user can then reload them to t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments,

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Enable runtime duplicate envelope check in Config Center

As part of new partner onboardings for all SCBN customers, Implementation team will create envelopes with client and partner EDI ID's on config center and there is always risk of creating duplicate envelopes because of incorrect information from c...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Extending SCIS UI Capability - Conditional Colour Formatting in Table Widgets

Colouring based on business logic outcome is an important UI capability. In supply chain solution depicting the stock health with simple intuitive coloring is an important indicator for the users to quickly understand the stock health. This is ju...
over 1 year ago in Control Tower 0 Not under consideration

To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Supervisor Approval flow missing in Store engagement

At Costco, we have a usecase to support Supervisor approval workflow to override price in case the current user doesn't have relevant permissions. This feature is missing in Store engagement per current documention
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration