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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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Restarting a Carbon Copy Branch in InFlight

We work on a lot of Business scenarios for the SCBN Customers where the main document is carbon copied and sent for parallel processing. In this case, we would see a separate entry for the main branch and separate entries for the Carbon Copied bra...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Add back ability to configure custom SSL settings per netmap remote node

It appears version 6.2 removes the ability to custom configure SSL settings per each remote node in the netmap and forces you to select a pre-configured SSL profile. We would like to have the option to custom configure SSL settings per each remote...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Cryptographic function used for TLS certificates storage should use SHA-384 or SHA-512 or POLY-1305

CA Certificates, Key Certificates and Private Keys are stored in key database file cdkeystore.kdb + STH file. In addition software stores the key database password in .keystore file and passphrase to the private key in .password file in C:\Program...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for in app changes

We are looking for a way to be able to log anytime any changes are made ANYWHERE in SEAS with an entry showing what the previous setting was vs the new setting and who made the change. Currently no matter what amout of debug logging is turned on t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Planned for future release

"Read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups

It would be interesting for our business model to have a "read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups. This way, they can see what is in the menu but cannot make any changes. There are "read-only" options in various pa...
5 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed

It would be interesting if the Active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed on files and folders in the Web Client, such as copying, pasting, deleting, cloning, or moving to another location. This would allow us to have a rec...
5 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Provide tooltip messages for disabled toolbar action buttons in the "Order Summary - Orderlines" tab to improve clarity on their disabled state.

This feature would be highly beneficial for customer service teams, educators, and users who interact with the system. It will provide immediate context on why a button is disabled, improving communication and reducing confusion. Tooltips should b...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Under review

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Unfreeze top panel of transactions

The top panel of transactions takes up a lot of space and when scrolling down that part is frozen in the browser making the number of transactions we can see at the same time very low (only around six when), see screenshot (the yellow part doesn't...
3 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted