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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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Archive post processed/ Final delivery payload in the Inflight

In the archive process on SCBN, Currently we are archiving original input data and output data from the translation step. But we are expecting final output data which is delivered to partner after all post-processing steps in the flow instead of t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Planned for future release

Add Biannually (every six months) as a frequency option for work queues

Add Biannually (every six months) as a frequency option for work queues
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Add filters/search capability for conditions and expressions included in DET's.

Often, I would like to be able to see how many DET's call on a specific field or expression. This might be because we are thinking about changing/repurposing that field or simply understanding the impact of that field. For instance, how many DET's...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Call Center: Combat abuse of agent-facilitated appeasements via AI-backed assessment of new appeasement requests

When engaging a customer support agent, a bad actor might seek to exploit customer care procedures for illicit gain by repeatedly requesting various accommodations - whether the reship of an order or line item, claiming that it's lost, or a refund...
3 months ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

Cryptographic function used for TLS certificates storage should use SHA-384 or SHA-512 or POLY-1305

CA Certificates, Key Certificates and Private Keys are stored in key database file cdkeystore.kdb + STH file. In addition software stores the key database password in .keystore file and passphrase to the private key in .password file in C:\Program...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Not under consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

ICAP scanning required for files pulled and pushed by Sterling Integrator

Files that are pushed by external vendors are scanned via ICAP protocol in Sterling Secure Proxy. But the files that are pulled by Sterling Integrator are not scanned as they do not pass through SSP. This leaves a big gap in the scanning feature o...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

Functionality requested to produce the 824 to provide insight into content failures when there is no corresponding acknowledgement transaction to convey information.

Functionality requested to produce the 824 to provide insight into content failures when there is no corresponding acknowledgement transaction to convey information. This request has become more prevalent in the industry and is now being included ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release