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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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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

API Communication Protocol Enhancements in relation to Transfer Attributes passed to GIODE

Action 1: Enhance the /payloads API to produce XML output based on the ‘Accept’ header. Respond with a 200 status for application/xml and application/json requests. Action 2: Limit the overall payload size for /payloads to 4MB and the size of a si...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Delivered

Forward client IP for all protocols from sterling secure proxy to sterling file gateway

Currently SSP forward IP for HTTP Protocol to sterling b2b integrator but it doesn't have capability to forward client IP for other protocols to sterling b2b integrator. We have a regulatory requirement to capture IP for all inbound files/transact...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 12 Delivered

Sterling 9.5 compatibility with Oracle 19C

Oracle 12C is going on extended support. Most of the latest technology stack (including OMS 10 )supports the latest version of Oracle DB. Its very important to test and certify the compatibility of OMS 9.5 with Oracle 19C.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Delivered

Allow for an upload of the CD export as text file for defining rules

Connect Direct Administration, File Agent Configuration: There is no business justification for the time needed to rebuild a ser file should it ever become corrupt. The File agent configuration has a nice feature to export to text. However the opp...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 5 Delivered

Getting Multiple Files from AWS via Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0

We have the facility to put multiple files to AWS from Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0 but do not have code/facility to go with getting multiple files.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Delivered

Certify SQLServer2017 for Connect:Direct for Windows

Support for the later versions of supporting software

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

Add proxy authentication to the bulk upload utility

Without authentication, we cannot get out from behind our proxy. We use Forcepoint proxies. The script fails and we need to bypass auth or the proxy altogether to be able to get out. This causes a delay in our testing.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Import/Export 0 Delivered

CC 6.1 handling more than 10 alerts at a time

Sometimes we need to handle a lot of alerts at a time, e.g. more than 900. Because this is currently not possible with version 6.1 we can't use it.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered