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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...
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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Support for EBICS protocol/authentication in the DMZ

To enable EBICS protocol to be authenticated in the DMZ , SSP with SEAS using either LDAP or Sterling B2B Integrator (similar model to SSO token authentication to avoid duplicating authentication).
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 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

To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Alternative to +SETALL permissions requirement on IBM MQ Adapter connections using -EQN

IBM MQ Adapter connections often use the -EQN facility to designate an alternate queue from the input -QN so that error messages do not get stuck in the input queue and interfere with message processing over time. The use of -EQN requires the +S...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Future consideration

Single Supply and Demand adjust api to keep Availability picture synchronized

To mimic the behavior of Goods Issue (Supply and Demand decremented) in a synchronized manner, it will be good to have a API which can accept related Supply / Demand updates in a single event rather than 2 async apis which can be impacted at multi...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Enable Log Rollover based on Size and not Number of lines

I enabled Translation Logs setting the Log Level to ON with Rolling Over every 100000 lines. It started creating the logs of size as big as 52 GB which is really huge in size and doesn't make any sense as it can't be read. Please provide the Log R...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

DateTime Functions should handle Epoch as well

We're receiving a message where the timestamps are in Epoch notation. ToDateTime and FromDateTime (and maybe other related functions) should be able to handle this so it can be treated and/or formatted in a human-readable format.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Needs more information

Sharing search saved searches between users

When we create good search saved searches to filter out particular results. It would be very useful to share them between full team. For example saved searches for customer service
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Optimized locking of YFS_ORDER_HEADER record , more granular control for changeOrder API.

Customer order can be updated by multiple agents at the same time, most of it can result in changeOrder API calls. This results in row lock contention in YFS_ORDER_Header record by select for update query, ccfrfn4vuhtt0. The ask here is provide mo...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Planned for future release