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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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Config center - Validation of MAP and TXO during deployment

In Config Center when we deploy a map by uploading the map and txo there is a risk of selecting a wrong map and txo which the sytem doesn't validate.In such scenario the input file would process through a wrong TXO and would create issues to custo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Map Interchange Contrl#, Group Contrl# and Transactionset Contrl# to Rule Macro

We have a list of macro functionality to use in the routing rule configurations in BPN. for example SUBSTRING, destinationfilename, DATETIME etc. Often times we get request from trading partners to use Interchange Contrl# in the destination filen...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Add WAS Instance Restart to Import CDT XML Process

We have noticed in all environments that whenever the Import CDT XML process is run, the Restart WAS Instances process also has to be run due to caching issues. Most times, the environment becomes unusable after an Import CDT. Because of this, in ...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Wrap indicator when viewing large files to stay during Download

When viewing the X12 in In-Flight you add the delimiter so that the view wraps correctly. When you download it becomes one long stream. Need to reflect this wrapping in the download.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Simple "Survey" capability in PEM as an add on

Now that we have the partner details, if we have an option to create a unique URL for each of the TPs and TPs simply have to click and submit details, it will be useful if we need surveys to be filled by the TPs.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release

Manage NDM for z/OS from Windows NDM

Like DB2 explorer, allow NDM for Windows act as a management client, to show and manage NDM for z/OS. Such as copyfile, manage queues, even display/update Netmap.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Future consideration

Gift card auto cash out is currently not supported by OMS even though its the law in certain states

Several states in united states have a law for gift cards tender i.e. after gift card tender if remaining balance on the card is below threshold, it must be given as cash to customer in same transaction. Threshold varies by state, some states have...
almost 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Allow 50 attributes, with 500 values

We will be running various activities that may make it difficult to keep attributes to 10
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

C:D Link failure mesage ids - SVTN001I and SVTO022I documentation

There are few of the transfers ended (failed) with connect: direct completion code 10 along with completion link failure message text SVTN001I and SVTO022I. We checked under below path for the allocation errors message id along with max retry limi...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic option for connectivity test with Trading partners.

Currently in order to do any connectivity testing with trading partners we have to do series of tasks on SCBN. Current Activities/ Challenges which we have: 1. We need to create InFlight FTP relationships. 2. We need to configure BPN send/receiv...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Functionality already exists