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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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ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Add detailed software version to .swidtag file

Currently the .swidtag contains version in V.R.M format so it is missing the exact Fix Level and iFix version. For example: version 6.1.0.2_iFix012 for Windows in the .swidtag contains version="6.1.0" and not the full 6.1.0.2_iFix012 (or 6.1.0.2.0...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

The source map name and compiled map name should be same as that of name of Map detail, only then the map deployment should be allowed

The source map name and compiled map name should be same as that of name of Map detail, only then the map deployment should be allowed.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Support HP-UX B.11.31 for SSP 6.1

Could you please provide support for SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31? A customer in the financial industry needs us to support SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31 because HPE offers the extended support for B.11.31 until Dec 2028. https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/servers/...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Able to fetch results using custom fields in Pick Summary list

Need the API to fetch results using custom fields in Pick Summary list eg:Using references in the fields or fetching results by order_by using any custom field in the references API Details: Get List of Pick Requests available for the tenant and s...
8 months ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Enable CCD to deploy patches in Iseries and Tandem estate

We have a significant tandem and iseries estate in the organisation. Following a CCD process to upgrade a patching on these platforms will create a standard CD patching across the estate.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Logging is needed WHO and WHEN downloaded a file from Sterling Dashboard or FileGateway

When debuging file flows it is useful to see how the file looked before the transformation and how it looks after transformations. Due to compliance reasons on production systems it is necessary to see WHO and WHEN downloaded the file and viewed i...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Custom Email Body option under Email Notification (ERN) in Config Center Tool in Reporting section

In existing Config Center Email Notification will configured to report the Customers/Partners on data failure's, communications failure's and according to Probable failure type in ERN level default template is there and that will fetch as body and...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Need a way to select multiple envelopes or maps and delete them all at once

It is very tedious to delete batches of envelopes or maps since you have to select each one, delete it, and then repeat with all the rest. There should be a way to select batches of them similar to how the export resources works and then delete th...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

To increase the limit of 16 character names (SNODEs) in the Secure+

Good morning Most of our transactions used in our transmission central services must be secured. So we need to use Secure+. Most of our transactions are using DNS value so the CDZ limit of 16 character defined in the network map is affecting us. M...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration