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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...
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...

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Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

User Accounts with limited access control to Sterling File Gateway components

Sterling B2B Integrator should provide options to create & assign DENY permissions to Sterling File Gateway components. At present Sterling file gateway does not have the options to create permissions for specific components. We'll have to use...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Functionality already exists

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Allow multiple simultaneous deployments to different environments.

With IBM owning the OMoC deployment process I expect the processes to be somewhat different though the same general capability to exist. The ability to do simultaneous deployments certainly exists outside of OMoC with IBM OMS, the same should be p...
almost 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Error Details in InFlight for PEPPOL Flow

We have recently started on-boarding customers who are using PEPPOL for their e-Invoicing via SCBN and B2BAC channel. Apart from translation failure any communication or validation error reported by remote Access Point providers are shown up in B...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Clone Option While Adding Users In Customer Center

For our B2B/Managed Services Customers, when we are all set for production move there is a action item where the technical person or Admin from Customer side has to add their Team members who can access InFlight Portal for Monitoring there Traffic...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Functionality already exists

Check for inventory availability while adding a line for reship, the CSR should have immediate feedback as to whether it can be fulfilled.

Currently in the call center the reship function blindly adds the reship order line without doing an inventory check. I don't know that it needs to be as involved as a wizard such as adding a line though it does need to be more involved and at lea...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

ITXA-Ambiguous ISA Envelopes

Duplicate envelopes created with same SENDER ID and RECEIVER ID with different name of Envelope Name Please check the envelope database table before making an new entry with same SENDERID and RECEIVER ID so that It can generate an error messag...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 2 Not under consideration

Add a link to launch cognos from Call Center

The team that needs Cognos, does not use business manager but rather Call Center. We would like a task to launch BI if the user has the role.
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Not under consideration

It should be possible for Control Center to handle multiple SSL/TLS keys in its keystore

Currently can Control Center only work with one unique key in its keystore. When using SEAS authentication this certificate must be defined with both Server and Client Authentication Enhanced Key Usage (EKU). It should be possible (as any other c...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration