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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...
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...

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Rich Text Functionality for Labels

Would like to be able to change the font style, size and color within one single label. Currently you are required to have multiple labels if you want different text formatted differently.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Provide subscription order creation flow in Call Center.

Add a new screen or flow for creating and managing the subscription orders in the call center UI.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Not under consideration

COM: CSR: Order Cancel: View Original Sales Order Detail even when the Order is Cancelled

As a Tapestry CSR, I want all the Sales Order detail to be available even if the Order is in canceled status, in order to have a productive conversation with a customer by having visibility on original sales order information Use Case: When a CSR ...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Ability to see perimeter server status on SSP (i.e. monitioring - running/stopped)

Currently we're unable to see which perimeter servers are active on the Sterling Secure Proxy engines, this in turn can cause issues if duplicates are present. This would mimic the monitoring ability currently in place for adapters.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

WorkOrder Purge effeciency

Observation in workOrder purge agent. 1) Multiple getsJobs are getting triggered with EnterpriseCode. 2) yfs_task_queue table doesn't have EnterpriseCode column, which leads to pick unnecessary records for executeJob (multiple enterprise scenario)...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

Intrinsic Symbolic Variables for other Connect Direct Platforms

Currently, Intrinsic Symbolic Variables is only available to CD z/OS and CD Windows. This should be made available to other CD platforms as well.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

To authenticate users/applications based on the Certificates rather than using userid and passwords

Currently, Any user trying to access NDM has to logon with userid and password either manually or via batch jobs. In order to avoid clear text passwords, Users can be authenticated based on certificates.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SEARCHUP() & SEARCHDOWN() functions should return all matched records, Instead of first match

Currently SEARCHUP() and SEARCHDOWN() functions return only single object. We need the functionality for these functions to return all matched records instead of one similar to how EXTRACT() function returns data. Using EXTRACT() on large data set...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

IP + User_Id whitelisting

SSP supports IP or User_Id whitelisting only but not a combo ( IP + User_id). We need to ability to whitelist IPs for a given User_id. This way, if a rouge employee left the firm but carries the user_id credential, he can't login from other locati...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration