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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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Build server for OMoC clients

I am seeing lack of build servers as part of OMoC offering a big challenge with many client small & big. Today the client is responsible to setup this environment and whether they have an extended team to support their implementation or not, t...
almost 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

The ITX mapper needs to be capable of supporting Sterling B2Bi Envelope/Control Number management is a similar manner to how it support ITXA in order to fully leverage ITX maps within the Sterling B2Bi product

This ask effectively is to expand the Sterling Data Harness called within ITX maps to support more than just delimited from the Sterling Envelope but allow for a get & increment control number(s) as well as all sender/receiver/qualifer/version...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Support transactional JSON in a similar manner to XML within Document Extract Service/X12 Envelope Service (and EDIFACT likely too)

We are a large user of Sterling B2Bi both BPs and Enveloping and historically we also have been for mapping as well. That said we have a lot of demand with the movement in the development space and even a few external facing areas toward JSON, as ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Unhandle Alert

Sometimes mistakes happen. A user may accidentally handle an alert. It would be great if an enhancement was added where as long as the handled alert is still present in the Handled Alerts Monitor, the user could then check that handled alert and s...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

System Certificate Name Update - Global Update to Adapters/CD Nodes

When editing a System Certificate under B2B console > Trading Partner > Digital Certificate > System > (Your System Cert) > "Edit Name or Usage of existing Certificate"... You aren't able to make that name change globally. So your C...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add Window Tolerance in Minutes capability

Currently in Control Center slc window tolerance, the value is in hours. Although a window tolerance of zero can be selected, a user may want a tolerance that is less than one hour, but not zero. There may be a need to monitor a file for timelines...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Audit logs should be created when a CD or B2Bi node is Paused/Resumed recording the ID

In production situations node monitoring by Control Center is critical for alerting on failures. Currently someone can pause monitoring and we have no way of determining who did so.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Need to record UserId and the reason for the pick cancellation.

We are not recording the UserId and the reason of cancel if user cancel the pick through store UI.It is very difficult to idendify the user who did cancel and the reason of cancel for Bopis Order.
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 7 Future consideration

Copy to Sharepoint UNC path using WebDAV@SSL protocol instead of SMB/CIFS

currently C:D can copy to Sharepoint shares only using SMB/CIFS protocol we need to copy to a Sharepoint share which is accessible using WebDAV@SSL protocol \\our.sharepoint.local@SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\abcxyz\Shared Documents\destination-folder\
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

MyFileGateway 2.0 (enable same capabilities / customization / Usability similar to 1.0)

There currently more customization in 1.0 vs 2.0 in terms of permissions and default views (FileActivity/downloads/uploads). The enhancements of multifile download and download as Zip are what our users wanted, but not with loss of certain functio...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration