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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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Provide SUBMIT ESF=YES feature for CONNECT:Direct-Unix

On C:D-z/OS, an Extended Submit Facility (ESF) option (syntax is ESF=YES) exists for the SUBMIT command to allow C:D transmission requests to be queued up even when C:D is down on the z/OS system; the requests are executed later when C:D has come ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 0 Future consideration

Certificate tracking in Secure+

Request that statistics capture serial numbers of SSL certificates exchanged during CD secure+ file transfers between pnode and snode. Serial numbers should be visible in select statistics and CD Requester.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct netmap may contain only 3 addresses on HP Nonstop

Hello, Today on unix, mainframe or windows the number of alternate ip addresses that we may enter in a netmap definition is unlimited. On HP Nonstop (not HP-UX), we are limited to 3 hostnames or ip addresses (the documentation says: IPADDR=ip.addr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Adding support for Pipes to Connect:Direct by z/OS

Adding support for Pipes on Connect:Direct for z/OS can help to speed up the overal file transfer process for distributing dat towards distributed platforms.Analogy to functionality already available in C:D for Unix.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Add Dev Toolkit version check & download for SST Command Line Tools

Add a method / option to the command line tool to pull the dev toolkit version for latest (overall) or for a particular environment -- and show a version string. As a bonus, add a method / option to download the latest dev toolkit version. For bon...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

PEM should have an option of Copy-&-Paste the already created API boxes, XSLT boxes and Dialog boxes.

Currently, if we want to create same API dialog box twice then we have to create that from the scratch i.e., entering the same URL, Location, Calls etc. and this creates a big issue when we have to do the same API calls with extremely minute to no...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Need an API to check the template Details in Sterling File Gateway

Input of the API: "Template Name" Response: "Template Type(Static/Dynamic)", "Groups assigned to the template", "Provisioning facts assigned to the templates" etc.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Functionality already exists

Boradcasting a common message to all store users

Can we have a feature in OMS through which we can broadcast common messages to all stores together on Store engagement application.e.g. "XYZ carrier system is down. Do not perform any packing operation". This will help in avoiding multiple tickets...
about 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

CDHPNonstop SPCLI - Create Command Line Commands

Need to schedule a batch job that collects cipher/encryption information for CDHPNonstop. SPCLI - Create Command Line Commands
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Request for APIUSER to authenticate via SEAS

Only the default APIUser can log in to make changes. However, our standards dictates that unique users must access the system via LDAP
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release