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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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Show number of records for Block-Mode-Transfers

This Enhancement Request is created following Case TS011846040 (Wrong Statistic Records in File Transfer between C:D for z/OS and C:D for UNIX) The problem is that the number of records is shown as 0 on the sending side in the Statistics for a ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic show/hide UI dialog elements

When trying to make a UI dialog more dynamic, we can currently use labels mapped to XSLT output to generate appropriate text for a partner. E.g. a screen which can show Test, Prod, or both Test and Prod server details in one dialog. Or Inbound, Ou...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Mapping, Transformation from/to Excel

Excel is becoming the usability standard for structured data. On many occassions the CSV file can't be used and formatted in Excel, so natively Excel is being used to exchange data.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Include PREV link for pagination in the BTS Trace API

With the API as it is right now we can only page forward. If we would like to go backward we would need to store all the previous links on a stack, which makes the API not really stateless. Since you already provide the NEXT link would it be possi...
over 1 year ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard for the Inflight Protocol relationships

Using Inflight reports we can fetch numerous types of customer and trading partner volumes based on the data. However, we don't have any report or Analytical Dashboard for checking the volumes and health of the Relationship setups and Protocol pods.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Legacy Inflight / Relationship Setup: Drop Down to select the POD to ease the search

We have different drop-downs to select the type of relationships in Legacy Inflight. Can we have a drop-down for POD selection as well. So, that we can sort the setups based on POD. So, that Implementer/Support can sort easily based on POD. This a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

PEPPOL AS2/AS4 flows: MDN should show up in Inflight Status event

In PEPPOL, why sending a file via AS2/AS4 to recipient AP via B2BAC. The Inflight entry is updated with Accepted event, but it doesn't show up the MDN copy which we received for the message. If MDN is visible, we can trace the errors in more faste...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing visibility discrepancy in Inflight

Need help with enhancing inflight visibility issues. We have at least encountered this issue couple of times this year where the PO was successfully processed and sent from Inflight but we could see it in yellow status. Is there something that can...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 3 Not under consideration

The need to sometimes have audit / trace created in the locations compiled in when using the REST API of ITX version 10

Observed that when Directory name is set as "Custom" and relative path is mentioned - Audit/Trace File is not created in relative path directory with mentioned name when audit and trace settings is set to "ON" and maps are triggered using REST API...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Automation of In-Place Node Renames -- CDU/CDW

Various application teams are approaching us for Connect:Direct high availability architecture guidance and advice -- or have decided to strengthen their C:D architecture -- after initial software installation. This is resulting in hundreds of CDW...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration