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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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Add API for standard, wildcard, and workflow slcs

Currently there aren't any APIs for standard, wildcard, and workflow slcs. Only for simple slcs, which we do not use.

Enhance CSV import for quoted fields

Currently Design Server has the capability for importing csv with quoted fields where option available to choose String or Custom CSV import. It will be great if we have similar import option in Design Studio to avoid manual errors while creating ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Delivered

Connect Direct with support 64 Bit libraries

We have problem by installing C:D on Linux because it only works with a lot of 32 Bit libraries which our Unix Administrators won't install. Please made a C:D package which works under 64 Bit environment without additional installation of 32 Bit
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

ITXA - Excel Adapter is failing, in SI-ITXA-ITX Integration Environment

During Integration with B2Bi, ITXA makes references to B2Bi jvm classpath, whereas ITXA needs to be more fully defined in the class required and not rely on SI. ITXA class loader adjustments are required. We need a way to see what classes are bein...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered

With advancement of technology, Connect Direct needs to compatible with new OS versions and DB versions

We noticed that Connect Direct ver 6.0 is only compatible with Windows 2016 and SQL 2016. There are new versions of both Windows and SQL are available like SQL 2017, SQL 2019. ABN AMRO who is one of the prestigious strategic customer of IBM is usi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Delivered

API to recompute network availability for a list of items

Request to have an API to initiate network availability recompute for a specified distribution group and item list. The item can either be a child (SKU) or a parent item (SKN). The existing API solely accommodates either the entire network or a li...
8 months ago in Intelligent Promising 6 Delivered

Provision to Encrypt the Keystore and Truststore Passwords for Active MQ

No description provided
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Add "receive" functionality to the Transfer a File option when using Connect Direct Web Services (CDWS)

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over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Delivered

Adding Multiple Trading Partner ID/Name relationships in Inflight

Whenever we onboard a Customer on SCBN, as part of setup we need to add Trading Partner ID and Name Relationship in Trading Partner Names tab manually. Any medium size project has TP counts varying from 100-300 Trading Partners. Adding 300 entries...
about 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 6 Delivered

Support for Azure Blob Storage

Following our multi-cloud strategy the support for Blob Storage from Azure is important since Azure is one of the main players in public cloud, hence the native support for Azure Blob Storage is a request we have had from different customers.