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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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Rejecting EDI 270 Transaction - Custom Type 7 Business Rule not working as expected in ITXA

Various type of Custom Type 7 Business Rules are not working when trying to validate various segments and elements.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Restrict user access to Monitoring section

We have a monitoring team that should not have access to deployment or any section which will make any changes in the environment. Their job is to only monitor the environment. It would be helpful if we could restrict their access to Monitoring ta...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

API to Monitoring download data without logging in

We would like to automate the monitoring process. It is very difficult to login to SST every time and navigate to Monitoring Menu, select all the option and see the very disappointing charts. It would be very useful if we could download the monito...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

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 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 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 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Planned for future release

Add a feature to load codelist to IBM Transformation Extender (ITX) Design studio for local testing

We are using codelists for 90 percent of clients and currently, we do not have an option to load the codelists to the ITX design studio for local testing as we do for the SI mapping server. We are depending on CTE/Production testing to validate ma...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Need an API to import invoices for processed orders and shipments

Invoices related to orders, shipments, returns, credit/debit memos are critical pieces of information to build the complete picture of a closed or partially fulfilled order. Since the line-total during order-creation and invoicing could vary, invo...
almost 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Request for New filter options in Inflight for communication type and pod

In the search for document option. Could you add the communication type to the search ? Like AS2, SFTP, Van or FTP. It would also be VERY useful if you could add the option to select a POD like POD41 and only see those that go thru that POD. When ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

CoC 19.1 SBC extensibility workbench opened in Firefox 60.x forces installation of jsLib that is incompatible with Firefox 60.x

Environment Info CoC 19.1 devtoolkit Problem Statement When following the documented CoC instructions to enable extensibiility workbench for SBC at the following link, trying to use Firefox 60.x forces the installation of jsLib add-on that is in...
almost 6 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Is a defect

CCD should keep track of connection high water mark

One of the ways to license C:D is based on the max number of connections over a given period. However, I'm told that this information is no longer available in CCD. The other option that was mentioned is being able to pull this from C:D directly.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists