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reading Source IP address from HTTP headers through for example X-Forwarded-For

Currently there is a dynamic routing feature to read incoming source IP address and base the routing based on this value. However many organizations dont support having source IP address hitting the SSP engine servers. Usually the incoming IP addr...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 2 Delivered

EDD calculation should factor carrier holidays and weekends

Currently there is no capability to set Carrier holidays and weekend schedule that can be factored in EDD calculation. Padding-up days to regular schedule isn't a great option. If holidays and weekends) are not accounted for, the delivery date cal...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Delivered

Support SFTP as a file transfer option for deployments from IFD

My IT shop has moved away from FTP in favor of SFTP for all internal file transfers between servers. The Integration Flow Designer (IFD) within the WTX Design Studio only supports FTP as the sole file transfer protocol when utilizing the deploymen...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Delivered

Sterling External Authentication server (SEAS) Admin UI needs to be ported over from thick to Web client

System : Sterling External Authentication server (SEAS) Actor : MFT Administrators Presently to setup, install and configure SEAS we need to use Java thick client which is a Java WS application connecting on non-standard ports and requiring a Wind...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 3 Delivered

Automation for running the configCC in SCC

As of now we cant run configCC.sh/bat script, we have to enter the host details manually. Even we cant use silent file to provide these information.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Connect Direct File Agent: Add a search function to search on File Agent rule names

Please add a search feature for File Agent so if we know the File Agent rule name, we can search on it and then select. This would easier than using the scroll bar or using the wheel on the mouse especially if a File Agent configuration has numero...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

ConnectDirect for Linux on PowerPC LE

We have to install ConnectDirect on SLES PPC LE.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

For IBM SFG to be able to leverage on Azure Managed SQL service

It would be super if SFG setup in Azure (IAAS) could leverage on Azure Managed SQL service (PAAS) instead of the need to setup MS SQL Server separately as an IAAS instance. The purpose of moving to cloud is to benefit from the need to administer s...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Delivered

Allow a SFG Community to allow using more than one PGP key for decryption.

Allow a SFG community to allow partners to use the existing key or the new key to encrypt their data with so that SFG then can use either PGP key for decryption - this will allow partners to make changes in a gradual way , when we generate new PGP...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered