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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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log modification at source end

Our splunk monitoring software is having the following issues while trying to review the Sterling Integrator logs: • AggregatorMiningProcessor • LineBreakingProcessor • Event Length>10000 Character
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Option to disable Connect Direct Web Services web page

Current version of Connect Direct Web Services software provides two interfaces - RESTful API and webpage GUI access. Software should allow to disable web GUI access.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

ICC Database tables which hold summarized data can be partitioned

Encountering performance issues with control center due to having a requirement for a large amount summary data to be available. Given that some of the performance issue are due to long running queries, if the tables holding this data were partiti...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Hide Recommended (Export) ROP, Recommended (Export) ROQ fields for MTC/OPS User Role

• As part of Item request feature roll out, end users (maintenance planners) will now need to submit item requests (stock level change requests) in MRO IO. More than 500 end users will now have read only access to MRO IO. • As we all know material...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Adding in additional triggers for alt.comm.outbound

The idea behind this is to allow alt.comm.outbound to be triggered for other situations. Such as TCP timeouts after a session had been initiated.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Enable runtime duplicate envelope check in Config Center

As part of new partner onboardings for all SCBN customers, Implementation team will create envelopes with client and partner EDI ID's on config center and there is always risk of creating duplicate envelopes because of incorrect information from c...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Sponsor and Partner Admin can update the Partner Admin to an already existing user or a new user

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Apply / Resolve Holds feature missing in Store engagement

Costco is migrating their business from RCP SOM to Store Engagement. We are missing Apply / Resolve hold feature for an order - which is widely used by store associate today in case they want to enforce / bypass and proceed with the order processi...
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Update SNMP support to v3

Security benefits, as per security issues detailed here: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-156A
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

include the encrypt/decrypt (export/import) passphrase into the properties file for rest api calls

We were looking to find a way to automate updating passwords for some of our accounts within SEAS utilized in our connection settings. It prompts for a decrypt passphrase that we cannot seem to pass values through automatically via script and we w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release