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PIV Card Support for Sterling MFT/B2B Products

PIV was initially introduced by HSPD-12 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12), in August of 2004. However, it is just now that agencies are being mandated to comply with this directive. The first required delivery date that we know of for ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Future consideration

Work Queue Exclusion option for items in Workflow

Items that are currently routing for approval may carry over from one month to the next. It would be good to have the option to exclude items from wok queue if they are routing for approval.
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Accept EBICS order timestamps with no decimals for seconds

For timestamps provided when sending an order request although the EBICS Specification generally refers to 3 decimal places for seconds being expected, it just points to the W3 datetime specification (https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime) w...
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

Increase PNUM limit to a much higher value (e.g. 1'000'000'000)

PNUM is actually limited to 99999 for most CD implementations. This is very low and has for effect that pnum can rotate very quickly. ICC is for example relying the grouping of CD events on this Process ID (which is a non sense as it's not unique,...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Legacy SST Download for Stand-alone Applications Manager

Currently, we have some business and support users using the Applications Manager. These users, do not use the Developer Toolkit and currently use the browser-based Applications Manager. With IE and Application Console being phased out, they have ...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Consolidate V2 SST Log Download into one Amazon S3 URL

Consolidate V2 SST Log Download into one Amazon S3 URL instead of multiple URLs for each instance. This feature was supported in V1 but V2 has splitted the app modules and user must use multiple URLs to download the app logs
5 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Store ydkprefs.xml for each environment for OMS V2 SST

Store ydkprefs.xml for each environment for OMS V2 SST to avoid manual copy paste the file before each CDT
5 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Planned for future release

WatsonX.ai Assistant helping the store associate - Intelligent Store Associate

The goal here is to be able to ramp up store associates to help with peak seasons, getting them selling quicker and reducing training time. In addition, when new sales take place, Watson can assist the store associate letting them know, keeping th...
5 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

CD Windows: CODEPAGE MBCS change mlang.dll for MultiByteToWideChar Win32 API

After a lot of months discussingg with IBM CD lab and Microsoft developement support (see cases TS011672863 and TS014123302), Microsoft accepts that mlang.dll has a problem with copepage conversion in CDWindows with ISO8859-15 and UTF8. Their reco...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration