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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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Provide "replace/override" capabilities when using the CDConfig Tool for Map.cfg and Usr.cfg import

Currently the Connect:Direct CDConfig tool does NOT support the "replace/override" functionality when importing Netmap or User entries. It currently will update existing Initparms, but for some reason it doesn't update existing Netmap or User entr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

automated deployment script cdinstall a always uses Secure+

I'm using cdinstall_a script to install/update C:D on UNIX and LINUX I need a command line parameter that disables Secure+ installation resp. checking for Secure+ during upgrade
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Unique Variable for Connect:Direct Windows

During heavy load it happens that Connect:Direct processes submitted at the same time produce identical timestamp values that are used for target filenames.Also the %PRAND variable in Connect:Direct Windows returns the same value within the same m...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Protect or encrypt or sign all Audit records to protect or capture changes

Audit functions in CD are not consistently recorded in an immutable form so that attempts to alter them are inhibited. Many configurations in UNIX CD are not audited at all because the configurations are in plain text files with no tracking. All c...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Add VDA Version 4938 Global Invoice to Map definitions

This version is required by our trading partners.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Standards 0 Submitted

Modify configureCmSsl.sh and configureEngineSsl.sh to allow for command line paramter passing

the current scripts allow for some parameters to be passed, but when exporting a CM configuration, you must always supply a second passphrase for the encryption of the exported xml file. This parameter cannot be passed without feeding it from your...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

External Schedulers (TWS/Tidal) trigger business process capability in Sterling B2B Integrator

Sterling B2B integrator is tightly coupled with internal schedulers for triggering business process. This is creating a bottleneck for few business requirements which has dependency on external schedulers like TWS,Tidal.. Need capability in Sterli...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Image Using Context Data - Display when developing dialog

When an image is selected through context data and then mapped to an image field in a dialog we would like the image to display in the dialog. When developing the page this would help us to design the page properly with the correct spacing and siz...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Execute APIs within dialogs

Currently a person's selection cannot execute an API call without exiting the dialog. We would like to add the ability to execute an API call within a dialog. This will allow us to cut down on the number of dialogs within an activity. This will he...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add conditional logic to entry/exit validation

We want to be able to create proper entry and exit validation. In order for this to happen we need additional conditional capabilities in these validation windows.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Not under consideration