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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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Include API monitoring/output in CD Logs

API connects to the CD product can be for File Transfer submissions or stat gathering for another use such as log checks. These API have a max value configurable on the local node entry in CD netmap file but currently there is no logging of API ac...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Provisioner activities should acknowledge parent PEM activities on failures

The provisioner activities should send acknowledgement to parent PEM activities on failures, this is must needed else the Parent activity doesn't know what happened to the triggered provisioner activities. The Sponsor admins will be not notified a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox.

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox. Currently, customers need to send a separate tickle for each file that resides in the on-prem B2Bi mailbox. This is inefficient and would reduce overh...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables.

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables. As most of the queries/monitoring and reporting are performed on the ACTIVE tables. These indices may not be always needed on the HISTORY tables.
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Enhance the Excel adapter design to accommodate\control Excel worksheet cell properties for data added by the Excel adapter.

We would like to create $ input amounts as a 'CURRENCY' field. Since the adapter only handles output as General TEXT format we are confined to this format and no other.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 4 Not under consideration

Sorting of products based on Availability during a call center product search

Call center currently displays list of products independent of items are available or not. When CSR are having a conversation with customer, they need to spend lot of time to identify products with inventory. There should be a mechanism to either ...
over 4 years ago in Call Center 0 Planned for future release

Multi Factor Authentication with Email or App Verification for HTTPS Users (MyFileGateway)

We have an urgent business/security requirement for a Multi-Factor authentication and Dual Authentication from trading partners. Our current systems runs on V 6.0.0.2 SFG Version. Can SFG V6 and above support 'Dual Authentication' and 'MFA' ? Dual...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

Reporting Capabilities in PEM

It would be really helpful if PEM is having reporting capabilities on Activities and Partners. This would be really helpful for business.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release