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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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ITXA is allowing duplicate envelopes

ITXA allows users to create duplicate envelopes which causes enveloping and deenveloping process failures . Better to enhance ITXA product not to allow duplicate envelopes
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Maintain Rule versions/version manager for routing rules created under BPN support Tool

Many process flows is designed using BPN support tool. Currently if a rule is modified/updated, The only way is to search the rule update by audit logs and manually revert back the values incase there is a processing issue. Many rules are being up...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

ICC Database tables which hold summarized data can be partitioned

Encountering performance issues with control center due to having a requirement for a large amount summary data to be available. Given that some of the performance issue are due to long running queries, if the tables holding this data were partiti...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to trigger the Supply or Demand buckets inventory picture for an item on demand/need basis

Currently client systems are subscribed to supply change and demand change events from IV over webhooks to reflect inventory buckets for client front end needs. For any missing events due to any reason, there is no functionality in IV to retrigger...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Report inventory for multiple items in a table in BUC

We can currently search on multiple SKUs by separating the SKU with a comma. But the user still has to drill into each item separately once the search results come back. If the user has searched on a single node or singe DG, they should be able to...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Include an Identifier to differentiate between the Inventory dbavailabilitycache message triggered by a delta vs full sync(publish_all trigger)

In our integration with IV services, we encountered scenarios where a full sync is being consumed by MW system and in the interim delta change comes in, the delta change processing is delayed because of the lengthy processing of full sync messages...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Adding in additional triggers for alt.comm.outbound

The idea behind this is to allow alt.comm.outbound to be triggered for other situations. Such as TCP timeouts after a session had been initiated.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Monitor Aspera Nodes

It would be great idea if we can have monitoring enabled for Aspera Nodes and secure proxy, the reason I would say is as Aspera provides one of the MFT solution which enables us to transfer huge data and since it has the ability to do so lot of or...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 5 Not under consideration

Enhance Search Abilities for InFlight Archive

It is EXTREMELY difficult to find documents in InFlight Archive because there are such limited search options. When looking for data, I most often search by envelope name or map name. Neither of those options are available. We also have many partn...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Propagate configuration via batch

This new idea is to request that Sterling Control Center Director allow configuration propagation, in this case from Connect:Direct (userfile, netmap, InitPams, Secure+), via Batch, and not just via the graphical interface.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Functionality already exists