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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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Status to be returned when performing an automatic silent install

When performing an automated silent install/upgrade from the Windows command prompt, instead of the command dropping straight back to the command prompt, certain messages would be returned and at the end of the install/upgrade a return code/status...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

We need a Tool to Identify the Cause of HIPAA X12 Compliance Exceptions

Tool to Identify the Cause of HIPAA X12 Compliance Exceptions NASCO routinely receives very large HIPAA X12 transmissions from their business / trading partners. (Very large meaning millions of segments and tens of thousands of transactions.) Only...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

Turning off Audit, traces & backup (logs) dynamically in runtime

We process very large volume of HIPAA/ non-HIPAA transactions on daily basis with file size from 1KB - 2GB of data. In our architecture/ solution we always uses ITX along with the IIB/ACE product. At times our developers forget to turn off either ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 1 Not under consideration

Managed AS2

Trying to make a new connection with Tracelink in order to transfer serial# information for drug products to comply with Pharmaceutical Industry Serialization requirements.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Duplicate order check for B2B order in Order Hub

Mattel has requirement of duplicate order check based on Ship To Customer and Customer PO number. If combination of these two attribute values is not unique when a B2B order is being entered in Order Hub, user should get a warning prompt. He can d...
over 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Update ExtraInfo1 Information using Rule Assignment to display in the Inflight document tracking

Currently, We can update sender/receiver/document type/reference number information using rule assignments to display in the Inflight document tracking. But we don't have any direct assignment in the rule to update ExtraInfo1 information. Currentl...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking / Inflight 6 Future consideration

Segregate PR and PP JMS properties instead of overloading them into one and forcing 2 copies of MountFiles

If embedded JMS is used, the Partner Repository and Partner Provisioner use different values in the same property "enable_jms_features" in Setup.cfg file. This makes it imperative to create two distinct copies of the entire MountFiles directory to...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support updates for Alias Netmap.

Per IBM Presently Control Center cannot directly update the Alias. We need this to be able to support full netmap updates.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Price override feature in Order Hub

Mattel has requirement to override unit price of the order in Order Hub during order create process and post order creation. This feature is either not working or not available in Order Hub. Also, selling price change (From value and To value) at ...
over 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct Client Identification by the Connect:Direct Server

Connect:Direct, although a peer to peer MFT tool, uses a client - server model as it's underlying architecture. With a client submitting a job to the C:D server, we cannot identify the client server with the current state of affairs if the C:D ser...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration