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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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Implement SelectMethod attribute for all OMS ListAPI

Suggest to include the SelectMethod handling as the standard attribute for all List APIs.
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

RPM for automated installation

We need a RPM installation package for Connect:Direct to simple deploy in our Cloud enviroment. The RPM must inform all dependencies for a automated instalation process (like Puppet).
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Partner Level Authentication

We are starting to see more and more customers want to move to SSH Key only auth, however, we are not set to that today, nor are all of our customers ready/willing to make that switch. Since the authentication requirement is set at a system level,...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

EBICS Server to permit both RSA and X.509 so clients can connect to the same bank profile

EBICS Server to permit both RSA and X.509 so clients can connect to the same bank profile which is configured with an X.509 certificate as this will simplify and reduce the impact of migrations for existing RSA clients to R3
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Under review

Display fulfillment overrides information in Node Availability API output

If a node is disabled for a given delivery method the availability will show 0 but there's no context of why it's 0. Displaying fulfillment overrides information in output will allow callers of the API to distinguish between not having available i...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to generate/expose OpenAPI specifications for OMS APIs

This idea if implemented can be used by developers, ISVs and clients to refer to API documentation, usage and testing purposes to expedite development and testing purposes. Some of the applications used for system/ application integration like IBM...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

Make (un)zip work in memory like excel adapter

We're working with a MQ-ACE-ITX setup. Being able to use (un)zip in memory would make it possible to work without temp-files to store the data. The excel-adapter has a switch to store/update stuff in memory, a similar way for (un)zip would be great.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Future consideration

CIphers configuration for Connect Direct Web Services

Connect Direct Web Services configuration should allow to limit list of allowed ciphers. Similar functionality is present for protocol configuration under "server.ssl.enabled-protocols”. Support for similar parameter e.g. "server.ssl.enabled-ciphe...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release