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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...

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Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Mandate Inventory Status selection when counting with variance for the new Location/SET

When user is trying to add inventory for the new Bin/Location it is letting to add the inventory without selecting inventory Status in the dropdown , this causing to add the inventory into SIM with inventoryStatus post approving the variance.
over 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 0 Not under consideration

Need serial details in the exceptions block when marked as Damaged/shortage during putaway in mashup response

When user selects record shortage during putaway we are unable to see any shortage serial details in the exceptions block of mashup response. store is unable to identify the proper serial based on the selected reason code.
over 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 7 Future consideration

Microsoft Deprecating IMAP and Basic Auth - Oct/2022

Microsoft is deprecating the IMAP and Basic Auth authentication for mailboxes from Oct/2022 - please see the link below. As of now the only options to connect to Office 365 mailboxes is using IMAP and Basic Auth - but that will not be available es...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Limit Secure Proxy sessions by inbound IP address

We want the ability to limit inbound sessions per IP address at the adapter level. We don't want to maintain inbound IP addresses in SSP but we would like SSP to be intelligent enough to realize when an external inbound IP is consuming X number of...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Control Center Email Action Ehancement

I recently learned that in a Control Center email action, if the body of the email action is left blank, it will return all of the available variables for the rule parameters you have set. I did some testing where I removed all of the variables I ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Not under consideration

SQS Client adapter to be extended for put

Currently the SQS adapter can only read from SQS. It should also be possible to put messages to SQS and to be able to use this service within BP
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Add line number column to be used for Active Alerts

On the Active Alerts screen for the Web console there isn't a line/item # column. This exists in version 6.0.0.2 for the Java/Swing console, but not 6.1 and above Web console. Add to user configuration view allowing users to select.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Ability to edit SLC name

Currently if a user wants to change the name of a SLC, it must be duplicated and then a new name can be given and the original slc can be deleted. The SLC name needs to be an editable field to allow updates.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Multiple Configuration Managers supporting proxy/perimeter servers

Currently SSPcm is a single point of failure since only 1 instance can manage a set of proxies. If the one instance goes offline, the proxies being managed a stop functioning correctly
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Future consideration