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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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CIphers configuration for Connect Direct Web Services

Connect Direct Web Services configuration should allow to limit list of allowed ciphers. Similar functionality is present for protocol configuration under "server.ssl.enabled-protocols”. Support for similar parameter e.g. "server.ssl.enabled-ciphe...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Freeze/Fix Column names on Comparison Matrix

In the Comparison Matrix Widget, when users Add certain columns to view in the matrix, when you scroll to the right, you loose visibility of what each row of information is. can the field names be fixed to the left side of the window pane so as th...
over 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Move the 'Previous Item' and 'Item state' icon to the right hand side of the screen

I personally think it would be more useful to have the 'previous item' sitting next to the 'next item' rather than to the far left of the screen, especially as more companies are moving toward the wider single monitor. I find I'm constantly scanni...
over 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Default Focus on first edit text in forms

Hello, with Store Next, when creating a new order and entering customer firstname and name: there is no focus on a particular edit text in the form displayed at the time we have to enter customer firstname and name. Scenario : I create an order in...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Is a defect

CheckInventory flag in the agent criteria arguments of schedule and release

scheduleOrder and releaseOrder API has CheckInventory flag in the API request. The agent criteria arguments for scheduleOrder and releaseOrder transaction currently doesnt support passing CheckInventory. Could you please include CheckInventory att...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0

JMS parameters in Inflight Delivery Event Details

When the files are delivered to JMS MQ at we are able see only the JMS queue in the Inflight Event details. It would be really helpful if other JMS parameter(SenderNonEDIID, ReceiverNonEDIID & DestinationProtocolSubject) also also being captur...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Request for Close all button in SPE Config:Center

The recent hyperlinking to the Next envelope name is very useful in Config Center. However, for validating one transaction set (Ex: X12 850: ST-GS-ISA 3 envelopes). I end up opening 6 windows as shown in the attached image and 6 times I need to cl...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Set up and track expiration of SSH public key in Authorized Key Store

Add more security to the keys, notification of expiration and renew them after certain period.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support long connection for large volumes of small files

Our competitor, Tongtech, provide a file transfer tool based on MQ to transfer files and support long connection which means if doesn't need to initiate a new session for each repective files which really lead to a high performance for large volum...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Update a watched directory location for Integrated File Agent

For stand alone File Agent, a user can update/correct a watched directory location. This seems like a basic function and yet it doesn't exist for Integrated File Agent. If a watched directory location has to be updated for Integrated File Agent, i...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration