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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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Password & Key based authentication for individual users using single SFTP Server Adapter

Password or key, Password and key, Password, Key based authentication functionality is required with respective users segregation. Assuming that the SFTP server adapter's authentication type is set to Password or Key, when a user with access to th...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Node level safety stock values considered when calculating Network level SS

This feature would allow retailers who already define safety stock at node level to more easily leverage the new IBM safety stock rules because the values they set at node level can automatically be considered to create a network level value
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Include special characters (e.g. @) in Parameter Name of Obscure Data - Process Data Values service

We are using SI 6.0.3.2 and the Parameter Name does not allow special characters such as "@" being used in the Obscure Data - Process Data Values service. This prevents email addresses being used as Names.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Ability to start individual App Server

There are situation, very often, that requires us to restart API servers, Call center servers, specific agent, specific integ server. We do not have that ability in the OMoC. Like we can pull call center logs, but we cannot restart just call cente...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

Visibility into Workflow for Non-Administrative Users

As a standard user, I need to have better visibility into the progress of a workflow where I have an assigned task. There are many workflows and participants in these workflows and as a user, I need to be able to plan my work so that I can anticip...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 2 Future consideration

Gentran:Server SMTP is currently not supported with Microsoft Office 365 Cloud / Exchange Online (EXO) which use newer SMTP/TLS protocols. We need a solution to make it work once we migrate to SMTP/TLS protocol.

All Gentran Server clients planning to migrate to Microsoft Office 365 Cloud / Exchange Online (EXO) which use newer SMTP/TLS protocol.

Transformation Extender Advanced validation for Envelope service needs to include invalid enveloped documents

Customer requires that invalid outbound data, the inbound data that caused the issue, and the translation report showing the errors in the outbound data. Current behavior returns the inbound data, the translation report, but not the outbound data ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Export users list with user status (enabled or disabled)

Admin is not able to enable or disable the users in Sterling Filegateway and not able to export the user status whether the user is in active state or not.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add EDI FA 997 correlation values to inbound document PIDs (similar to how FA 997 correlation is handled for outbound documents)

When an inbound EDI X12 document is received from a partner an outbound 997 is apparently automatically triggered based on the SCBN setup. This outbound 997 FA shares the same SCBN PID as the originating inbound document, but this action does not ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Support token based authentication for HTTP adapters and Product REST communications

We are using the 6.1 product REST, the REST Auth.war and a set of custom REST services (the latter two in HTTP Adapters). We have a security challenge on the use of Basic Auth for securing these services which we access via a gateway (Tyk) from a ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration