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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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Enable SMA screen to accept all passwords generated by external systems

SMA screen is not allowing user to enter the SFTP password and giving below error. Input should match ^[a-zA-Z0-9.@\-V+=_()\}\{\]\[,;:'"\u007F-\uFFFF]*$ regular expression Property being changed is yfs.coc.dataextract.sftp.password As the password...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Mandate Inventory Status selection when counting with variance for the new Location/SET

When user is trying to add inventory for the new Bin/Location it is letting to add the inventory without selecting inventory Status in the dropdown , this causing to add the inventory into SIM with inventoryStatus post approving the variance.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 0 Not under consideration

Expected Delivery Date field to be available for Users in Store UI to be editable during Shipping

When Store to Store OR Store to DC Transfer Orders are created in Store UI, store users require the option to enter Expected Delivery Date on confirm Shipment screen in Store UI. This helps the DC to be aware of Expected Delivery date. In case of ...
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement 2 Not under consideration

Check box to enable or disable rules by selecting multiple rules at a time

Implementer needs to go to each and every rule to either enable or disable them during testing or production move, by adding this new feature in BPN tool, we can select the similar kind of rules (by rule set, rule names,....) which allows us to se...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Logging is needed WHO and WHEN downloaded a file from Sterling Dashboard or FileGateway

When debuging file flows it is useful to see how the file looked before the transformation and how it looks after transformations. Due to compliance reasons on production systems it is necessary to see WHO and WHEN downloaded the file and viewed i...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Show more detail, on progress bar, when using IIM to upgrade B2Bi

Upgrading B2Bi v6.0 to v6.1 took almost two hours. For the majority of that time, IIM's progress bar sat at (about) 60%. It would be helpful to see what it's doing or even update the progress bar more frequently.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Display of Translation error in the Inflight search Dashboard

Every time we see any translation failure in Inflight, we will have to open the error-ed entry to see why the transaction got failed, and Inflight eventually do not show up the error immediately if there is any failure. It would take time to load ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced messaging for various message states within job log to allow automation

Today - the only way to verify message processing is to log into Connect:Direct and check the current status. We would like it when messages go into the various states (specifically a wait state) for a message to put but out to the started task jo...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration