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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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Increase max lenght for Direct Connection input fields - InFlight Protocol setups

We have situations where Trading Partners want to host direct connections like FTP, FTPs, and SFTP. Currently InFlight limits the user name field to 25 characters. We are now encountering partners that insist on using user names longer than this l...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Security enhancement in GUI: would it be possible to add GUI session timeout parameter which would lock session or log off user ?

this request came from security team/audit, they believe it would improve product security
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Functionality already exists

Having mode T or O dynamic in APIs through CXTransferSubmit in CX Unix (linux) for Societe Generale

Due to a concentration project at Societe Generale where all transfers are going to be concentrated in a Central Hub (SFG + CX) we faced an issue regarding the mixed of partners defined in mode T and Partners in mode O. In order to not multiply th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Planned for future release

To be able to run a report of the maps that are actually being used in the data and how often the map is being used. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Columns so it would allow the Map names to show on the reports.

This will help to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps' usage. It could be ran as the inbound/outbound activity report is currently ran from within Inflight. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Column...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Databa...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Enhance WMQ Suite adapters to support CCDT or CONNECTIONNAMELIST property and move to MQJM

Current WMQ Suite adapter is Based on MQ for JAVA technology and CCDTURL property is not exposed for configuration. Also the MQJB is matured and no further updates to the client is planned by IBM "IBM will make no further enhancements to the IBM M...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Rotables Logic Widget

A Functionality around Split Valuation materials to allow for overall right-sizing Core, Repaired, New, Capital materials from SOH and ROP/MAX = How many of each type is needed, how many are "in rotation" where are they, how many are due back eith...
about 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 6 Future consideration

Include ISA information in either the data passed to the hcsvu exit for implementing a type 7 rule in the qualifier file or in the data passed to a type 7 custom user exit

We currently have a requirement to compare one of ISA value to 1000A NM1 values to ensure they are same and it is currently no doable in ITX. We received this as a suggestion from support ticket TS005672303
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Not under consideration

Track Internal Users on PEM When PEM Registration Invite Sent to partner

Currently many users (MFT BA's & Engineers) are utilizing PEM, the number of users utilizing PEM may increase in the future. So there is a need to define a process or mechanism within PEM to track which internal EFX user is sending out new reg...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 4 Not under consideration