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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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Enhance PEM Provisioner Monitoring

Please see attached file for screen change mockups of the following proposed UI monitoring screen changes. Summary Screen Elimination: Eliminate this screen as it provides little value Participant Activity Progress Screen Changes: Pull the Overvie...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Planned for future release

Enhance PEM Portal Monitoring

Please see attached file for screen change mockups of the following proposed UI monitoring screen changes. Summary Screen Changes (Partner Rollouts): Show count of errored instances Show count of delayed instances Enable filterable report exports ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Planned for future release

Rollout UI - Allow rollout to Sponsor

The Rollout Activity API allows an activity to be rolled out to the Sponsor. This allows a Sponsor to execute an activity requiring a partner interaction. The web UI for rolling out an activity does not have this function.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Planned for future release

Rollout API - Feature parity with UI

Currently the Rollout API can only do a rollout to a list of 10 partners. It needs to have the same capabilities as the web UI: - Rollout to a group - Rollout based on attributes - Rollout to as many partners as needed - Add partners to existing r...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Improve JSON mapping

JSON handling is very static. The entire JSON structure must be predefined and we can only string-substitue into values. When API calls require certain keys to be included or excluded depending on the operation, this means we must create multiple ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Not under consideration

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

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

Email notification for approved workflow requests

Current scenario sends email notifications for pending workflow requests, but the team is not made aware of approved requests. As a result, the team is performing the workaround of manually keeping track of their requests awaiting approval.
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release