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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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Support long connection for large volumes of small files

Our competitor, Tongtech, provide a file transfer tool based on MQ to transfer files and support long connection which means if doesn't need to initiate a new session for each repective files which really lead to a high performance for large volum...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Provide subscription order creation flow in Call Center.

Add a new screen or flow for creating and managing the subscription orders in the call center UI.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Not under consideration

JSON Outputs are Getting Generated with Indentation Turned OFF

JSON Outputs are Getting Generated with Indentation Turned OFF In ITX Map : When we Import JSON File as a Type Tree, Output Layout by default is getting generated with Indentation Turned off. Currently below are Missing in ITX Type Tree. When we...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Improve JSON mapping

JSON handling is very static. The entire JSON structure must be predefined and we can only string-substitue into values. When API calls require certain keys to be included or excluded depending on the operation, this means we must create multiple ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Not under consideration

SSP Authentication APIs

SFG REST APIs could send/receive files however for the external trading partners this is not possible with SSP in between
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers (Not MQ FTE) using IBM Control Center

Could you please add the capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers using IBM Control Center.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Enable FASP support via SSP Perimeter Servers

We recently learnt via a support ticket (as this is currently undocumented at the time of writing) that SSP is unable to route the UDP traffic used by C:D's High-Speed Add-On FASP through SSP Perimeter Servers. This severely limits the scenarios w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

DBCS directory/file name support in CD Process

Customers in China often creates directory and file name in Chinese. C:D doesn't support src/dest file path containing DBCS. Request to enahnce the C:D Win/Linux/Unix product by adding an additional parameter in CD Process to specify the encoding ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 0 Not under consideration

Rich Text Functionality for Labels

Would like to be able to change the font style, size and color within one single label. Currently you are required to have multiple labels if you want different text formatted differently.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Not under consideration

WorkOrder Purge effeciency

Observation in workOrder purge agent. 1) Multiple getsJobs are getting triggered with EnterpriseCode. 2) yfs_task_queue table doesn't have EnterpriseCode column, which leads to pick unnecessary records for executeJob (multiple enterprise scenario)...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration