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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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Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Databa...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Add Dev Toolkit version check & download for SST Command Line Tools

Add a method / option to the command line tool to pull the dev toolkit version for latest (overall) or for a particular environment -- and show a version string. As a bonus, add a method / option to download the latest dev toolkit version. For bon...
almost 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

PEM should have an option of Copy-&-Paste the already created API boxes, XSLT boxes and Dialog boxes.

Currently, if we want to create same API dialog box twice then we have to create that from the scratch i.e., entering the same URL, Location, Calls etc. and this creates a big issue when we have to do the same API calls with extremely minute to no...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Accept Signed EERP Requests OFTP2

I recently went added an OFTP2 connection in PROD between IBM customer Thyssen Krupp and their TP WST. We send the file successfully and TP has confirmed they receive the file successfully put it stays in "processing" status on our side as if they...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

Multiple work orders allowed for a single order line

For any retail client working on any customization of products, they use work order concept to provide delivery or provided service. For an order with multiple quantities in a single order line, there are multiple valid cases, where a single work ...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add support for Global Data Services (GDS) & Application Continuity and Transaction Guard (ACTG)- Oracle 19c

We would like to take advantages of some features Oracle has to offer in the new space which will increase application uptime and availability during database patching. In our environment in order to support rolling patches and ensure application ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Disable concurrent user login in SEAS

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers, then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Future consideration

Disable concurrent user login in SSP

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers, then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration