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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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Support for deprecated Inventory Visibility APIs for OMS on-prem to OMoC 2 migration implementation

Cetrain OMS Deprecated APIs that are currently being exposed as OMS web services do not have alternative Store/IV APIs 1. getLocationInventoryAuditList 2. manageCountSheet 3. getLotList
about 4 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Future consideration

Bill of lading (BOL) functionality should be part of Store offering/product

Bill of lading (BOL) is one of the most important documents in the shipping process. To ship any goods, a bill of lading is required and acts as a receipt and a contract. A completed BOL legally shows that the carrier has received the freight as...
about 4 years ago in Store Engagement 0 Future consideration

Increase OOTB YFS_REPROCESS_ERROR.ERRORMESSAGE columns size to 5M

The current YFS_REPROCESS_ERROR.ERRORMESSAGE columns size is only 1M and is bit small to handle a big message when dealing with dataload related tasks. Under error condition, customer is seeing large number of exceptions in the log indicated -302 ...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Required JSON Generic converter service for GIODE

Issue: When we need JSON to XML or XML to JSON conversion, we always depend on new ITX Map. Its kind of extra work for us to convert JSON to XML and XML to JSON. We should develop a new map for every XML and JSON structure. Why cant we have a ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Timestamp for the .map/.mxl and the .txo are the same

User Logins into SPE or POD for loading maps.Search with Map Name , then click on Check out, Browser for .map and .txo and click Next,Select the latest map loaded and then click on Finish.Successfully loaded message is displayed.Alert/Notification...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Increase PNUM limit to a much higher value (e.g. 1'000'000'000)

PNUM is actually limited to 99999 for most CD implementations. This is very low and has for effect that pnum can rotate very quickly. ICC is for example relying the grouping of CD events on this Process ID (which is a non sense as it's not unique,...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Control Center 6.1+ Control the number of processes, events, and alerts that are display when viewing All servers

In a busy MFT environment, it is very easy for the number of events, processes, and event alerts to reach 10,000. If a curious user clicks on "View all servers", the number of processes, events, and alerts can show to be over 10,000 for all server...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to PGP Xprocessor functionality

Currently, The PGP XProcessor requires the following fields as input. The XProcessor Driver will look up the fields using the Profile Name and pass that data to the Utility class. Fields for Both Inbound and OutboundThe following fields are requir...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Improve Transfer Speed between CDU on EC2 instance and S3

We are in the testing staging of using CDU to download file from S3 and push to some other CD Node. However, after we perform testing a large file (GB), we found that the transfer speed is almost three time slower than AWS S3 CP command. We ha...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Support ITX on Alpine Containers

This would benefit those who want to use a smaller container image that is more secure with fewer Linux library dependencies.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration