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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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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...
about 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.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Add Dev Toolkit version check & download for SST Command Line Tools

Add a method / option to the command line tool to pull the dev toolkit version for latest (overall) or for a particular environment -- and show a version string. As a bonus, add a method / option to download the latest dev toolkit version. For bon...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

PEM should have an option of Copy-&-Paste the already created API boxes, XSLT boxes and Dialog boxes.

Currently, if we want to create same API dialog box twice then we have to create that from the scratch i.e., entering the same URL, Location, Calls etc. and this creates a big issue when we have to do the same API calls with extremely minute to no...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Multiple work orders allowed for a single order line

For any retail client working on any customization of products, they use work order concept to provide delivery or provided service. For an order with multiple quantities in a single order line, there are multiple valid cases, where a single work ...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Disable concurrent user login in SEAS

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers, then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment...
about 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Future consideration

Disable concurrent user login in SSP

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers, then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration

Support for XML version 1.1 to support additional characters JSON supports

Recently we ran into an issue where our Adyen WebHook notification was failing to process a response which caused a backlog of Payment notifications and had an impact to our payment processing for an entire day’s worth of orders. While the signifi...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Retry option in SEAS for any connection failures with LDAP server.

The retry option will take care of any internal connection failure instead of sending connection error for external partners/vendors.
about 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration