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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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Messaging within PEM

Provide messaging with logging/audit trail between participants in PEM.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Track Internal Users on PEM When PEM Registration Invite Sent to partner

Currently many users (MFT BA's & Engineers) are utilizing PEM, the number of users utilizing PEM may increase in the future. So there is a need to define a process or mechanism within PEM to track which internal EFX user is sending out new reg...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 4 Not under consideration

Bulk download of orders and orderlines from Optimizer Explainer

The current Optimizer Explainer does not a have an option to export the orders, order lines and node details to be exported to an external template for further review and analysis, the limitations lead to the following challenges. Difficulty in id...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Planned for future release

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

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

Inventory Visibility Service | Event Publish | Reservation Event

We would need to use the node level reservation event message to create activity for RTAM to consider this reservation for publishing to all consumers of the inventory.
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

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

Circuit Breaker for OMS Agent and Integration Framework

What problem are we trying to solve?Scenario when external integration point’s (Payment Gateway , carrier service or any external application ) service is down, oms agent/integration server transaction will error out and goes to reprocess error ta...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to allow Control Center Director to update C:D / File Agent passwords

Many companies, especially financial institutions, have corporate security policies that require all application passwords be updated on a regular basis. In order to do this with the Connect:Direct (C:D) application, a human has to log in to the n...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Pause Monitored File Agents when Monitored CD server is paused

Currently when a CD server is paused and if the File Agent has been stopped, the File Agent shows a down status. When a server is paused, the associated File Agents should be paused as well.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration