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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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"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Support for Microsoft Windows 2022

My Customer needs to implement Connect:Express in Microsoft Windows 2022. However, we have support for Microsoft Windows 2019 not 2022.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Excel Adapter - When importing an Excel spreadsheet. Use the first Row as the Column Names.

When importing an Excel Spreadsheet as a type tree, the importer creates a type tree with Generic Names : ie . COLA COLB..... If the importer can have an option to use the first ROW as the Column Names, then when the type tree is created, the Colu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Change Request Reporting data capture

As part of Change Request Project - Report data capture was not included - Client has been on the Solution for 6 months - client requestors and management request reporting capability that has been partially addressed within the product as a mass ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Protection/Unprotect from Bulk

During project client had "protected" one field for hundreds of items - which when they came over to MRO - they are still "Protected", but now they want to remove the protection and asking if this can be done via the bulk features. It was noted th...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Need to know length of salt for passwords and preferably configure it

As customers tighten their security policies, some are developing or already have requirements that the length of salt applied to a password must be a minimum number of characters. There is no current way to determine this or change it within B2B ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Be able to call/use password exit routine with locally installed Aim Client.

Currently the Windows Exit routine on v6.2.0.4 uses Rest API to connect to cyberark. We would like to see the exit routine being able to call a locally installed claim client to retrieve the password.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Implement config or variable to enforce DGADBATC to use specific tcp stack in batch

We're using batch utility DGADBATC in a multiple tcpip stack(cinet) environment and would like to have a parm variable or other config option to specify the utility to utilize specific tcpip stack. The standard options like : //CEEOPTS DD * ENVAR(...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Not under consideration

CONFIG CENTER -ERN-Need ERN Notification for transaction in Deferred Status if the Schedule not triggered on time.

Currently, we have notifications to the Customer/Partners for the Red and Yellow, Overdue Transactions and Customers also looking for the notification where transactions in Deferred status because Schedule not ran that particular time and transact...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Functionality already exists

In Inflight - Trading Relationships Report having the Orphan records or duplicate of each correct record

In Inflight - Trading Relationships Report Incorrectly Showing Unknown instead of correct values
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration