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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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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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add xlsx as report format

Microsoft is phasing out the use of xls formatted files. You have to manually open and save each file to convert to xlsx.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Update the EBICS HAC schema to comply with standard

the xml schema used in EBICS HAC is ISO20022 pain.002.001.05 when it should be pain.002.001.03 according to the 2.5 version of the standard. Even more, in version 3.0 is not updated to .05 and still remains .03 (need to be doubled checked though)
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years 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.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

About email notifications and body

Issue 1: For Example there is a partner called ABCBank and we have three child accounts(ABCBank-1, ABCBank-2, ABCBank3) in Sterling Integrator as well as PEM. And we have to rollout a activity for ABCBank and we would like to reset a password for ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 5 Planned for future release

User should not be allowed to login to the application using same or different browsers/devices

User should not be allowed to login to the application using same or different browsers/devices.This is big security vulnerably for banking and Telecom projects and have been highlighted by DAST teams
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to disable item and node combination for specific DGs

We need an ability to disable item and node combination for some specific DGs in IV whereas for other DGs this Item and Node Combination should be enabled. Currently IV does not seem to support this feature.
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Improved Program Reporting from PEM

It's very difficult to know the status of our program even at the most basic level. I'm looking for some basic numbers such as: Number off Invites How many have started? How many have done nothing? How many are totally complete with the process?...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 1 Planned for future release