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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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Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

Failure Handling

It would be better if we can -> had a failure handling option in PEM (like on fault in SI) -> call another activity from one activity Let us know, for more details
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

ERROR - SAP Status Messages reporting incorrect information if one IDOC fails all IDOCs in batch will show failed

IBM SAP Status Messages are reporting inaccurate information. Example, 1000 IDOCs are sent outbound from SAP to IBM in a batch. 3 IDOCS fail with status 04 from IBM. IBM will send back that all 1000 IDOCs have failed with status 04 even though onl...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Enable the Equipment Module (and Where Used) to be able to link to BOM’s using just ‘DIVISION’, instead of DIVISION and DISTRICT_CD

This is useful as it will allow client to filter through on materials issued against equipment at Division level and get the right count when they view that material against all District_Cd affected
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Update Certificate File via REST API

The B2B REST API allows the user to delete, create, or update attributes (such as the name) of an HTTPS certificate on the system. However, it does not allow a user to update a certificate in place (the "Update from existing PKCS12 Certificate fil...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Exporting Filesystem Virtual root path in SFG

The reason why exporting the file system virtual roots in Sterling Fileway is beneficial is that we need to export the filesystem paths that are assigned to specific users whenever a CISO, audit, or security team requests verification or audit che...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Enhance SWIFTNet7ClientResend business process to update previously failed filegateway deliveries

Currently SWIFTNet7ClientResend will be triggered via the SWIFT Adapter Scheduler to look at the SWNET_MSG table for failed PUT transfers to SWIFT. Upon detection of these types of failure the scheduler will trigger an execution of the SWIFTNet7Cl...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Support for tag controlled inventory in Store/SIM

There are products that are unique to batch, lot, manufacture date, and other attributes that require tagged inventory control to identify a specific or subset of a product. For example, products like granite/stone slab countertops each have a uni...
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Failed to authenticate with SFTP/FTPs, doesn't display any information of the source

Hi currently, we have a policy to lock an account after 3 failed connections on SFTP or FTPs protocol. In the communication session, it's possible to have the IP source when the authentication is successfull, but when the connection failed, the IP...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Functionality already exists