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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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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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Add support for JN Union HSM devices

This will allow secure use of the platform in China.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Not under consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

ERROR - SAP Status Messages reporting incorrect information if one IDOC fails all IDOCs in batch will show failed

IBM SAP Status Messages are reporting inaccurate information. Example, 1000 IDOCs are sent outbound from SAP to IBM in a batch. 3 IDOCS fail with status 04 from IBM. IBM will send back that all 1000 IDOCs have failed with status 04 even though onl...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Password & Key based authentication for individual users using single SFTP Server Adapter

Password or key, Password and key, Password, Key based authentication functionality is required with respective users segregation. Assuming that the SFTP server adapter's authentication type is set to Password or Key, when a user with access to th...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Ability to start individual App Server

There are situation, very often, that requires us to restart API servers, Call center servers, specific agent, specific integ server. We do not have that ability in the OMoC. Like we can pull call center logs, but we cannot restart just call cente...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

Make ITX functions TimeZone and DST aware

Currently when doing computations with timestamps across DST boundaries the functions (tealted to date/time) don't account for DST switches. This makes the result invalid. So in our case adding or substracting days from a timestamp doesn't take in...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

Multiple User Credentials

Our product team has grown exponentially; we now have around 9 teams with 2-4 developers in each team, and potentially all will have PROD access to IV at some point. Currently, we only have one generic user credentials to make changes in PROD. Thi...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

PEM Should notify sponsor when an email is bounced back.

Some Partners email servers are not receiving PEM emails and are likely bouncing them back. PEM should let the sponsors know if the Trading Partner did not receive the email.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

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