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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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Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SSP rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SSP making it very difficu...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Be able to control GS Control number format for ANSI X12 data

The WebMethods cloud product formats the GS level control number to be padded with leading 0s. This field is a variable length field and by the standard, should be sent without the leading 0s. As of today, we have to manually add a step in the flo...
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Allow different Node Balancing Cost (NBC) parameters by Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The SLA configuration we have loaded has values of Standard, 1Day, and 2Day. Is it possible to have different node balancing configuration values (Tiebreaker cost, Backlog Threshold, Overcapacity Penalty) for each node that vary by SLA? For exampl...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Capacity calculation to honor Node's locale

Since Capacity is used to control the number of fulfillments to be done from a particular ship node (either Store or DC), its critical to have the capacity calculation is done in the DC's locale instead of UTC. We have this requirement at Lands En...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

MyFileGateway LDAP Support

Currently we have multiple MyFileGateway users that we create, delete and update on a regular basis when new customers join the organisation. The accounts that access MyFileGateway are manually created and there is a large operational overhead on ...
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Standardized Usable Data Export and Re-import Feature for Tenant Decommissioning, M&A, and Data Migration Scenarios

This feature aims to provide a standardized process for exporting tenant data in usable, structured formats (e.g., CSV, JSON, database dump), which can also be re-imported into existing tenants if needed. The current approach often results in unus...
about 2 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration