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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 transfer rates monitoring on active filetransfers

Please include file transfer rate monitoring mechanism on active filetransfers. We had an issue with partner where after partner side upgrade the transfer rate became very slow. The filetransfer that took previously minutes, was now hours long. Sa...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Under review

Boradcasting a common message to all store users

Can we have a feature in OMS through which we can broadcast common messages to all stores together on Store engagement application.e.g. "XYZ carrier system is down. Do not perform any packing operation". This will help in avoiding multiple tickets...
almost 6 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Request for APIUSER to authenticate via SEAS

Only the default APIUser can log in to make changes. However, our standards dictates that unique users must access the system via LDAP
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support Kerberos authentication for SEAS bind to ADLDAP.

Support Kerberos authentication for SEAS bind to ADLDAP.
about 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Future consideration

Reuqest to have Connect Direct Windows support a Database AG Cluster and multisubnetfailover=true

We have created a Database AG for our Connect Direct Windows instance and would like it to support a failover from one data center to the other so we would like to see support for Connect DIrect Windows connecting to a Database Cluster and multisu...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Dashboard for the Inflight Protocol relationships

Using Inflight reports we can fetch numerous types of customer and trading partner volumes based on the data. However, we don't have any report or Analytical Dashboard for checking the volumes and health of the Relationship setups and Protocol pods.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Legacy Inflight / Relationship Setup: Drop Down to select the POD to ease the search

We have different drop-downs to select the type of relationships in Legacy Inflight. Can we have a drop-down for POD selection as well. So, that we can sort the setups based on POD. So, that Implementer/Support can sort easily based on POD. This a...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Inventory Visibility Service | Event Publish | Reservation Event

We would need to use the node level reservation event message to create activity for RTAM to consider this reservation for publishing to all consumers of the inventory.
about 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

IV doesn't allow syncing negative inventory postion like GIV does.

When an Absolute sync is done for Item-Node combination with -ve value IV ignores it. Where as we have this functionality in GIV
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

IV doesn't provide ability to differentiate various shipnodes by ship node type. As a result events published from IV cannot be filtered and/or distributed over separate channels within the external consumer by ship node type.

Currently in Ship Node configuration only Delivery method configuration is there need additional ability to differentiate DC vs Store so we can define various rules based on Ship Node type
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration