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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...

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Location and use of CPIO file on Unix for CCD upgrades.

We are looking to have the automatic download location of the CPIO files used by the CDU upgrades to be a selectable location or a field that we can populate in the job configuration. By default, (and we're not able to adjust) it is <installati...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Needs more information

Email/Alerting Notifications After CCD Jobs

Looking to have an email notifications and address(es) added as a configurable job field, which would be leveraged to send results automatically (if populated with an email address) after job execution. Email should include job status results (suc...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

Allow File Agent to be a selectable CDW component for Control Center Director upgrades.

When we run our CDW installs/upgrades, either via manual or automated installations, we do not choose to install the FA component. When we've attempted to utilize CCD as our lifecycle management tool, it automatically installs the optional FA com...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 4 Is a defect

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Add B2Bi REST API audit logs

B2Bi Rest API is becoming common in several solutions but there is not a proper audit log file or report to verify information like " USER - ACTION / API - TIMESTAMP" It is difficult to understand what is actually being consumed, by whom and how ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

To be able to run a report of the maps that are actually being used in the data and how often the map is being used. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Columns so it would allow the Map names to show on the reports.

This will help to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps' usage. It could be ran as the inbound/outbound activity report is currently ran from within Inflight. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Column...
2 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 0 Under review

Let keystore/truststore fields directly editable in the Admin Web Interfaca

In SEAS 6.0 GUI it was possible to specify keystore/truststore as local to the server in the GUI. In SEAS 6.1 the keystore/trust must be fetched from the users LAPTOP as the browse functionality is local to the browser and input fields are protected.

Sharepoint Integration

We are getting a lot of requests to transfer files directly to a sharepoint site using connect direct
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release