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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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Update Certificate File via REST API

The B2B REST API allows the user to delete, create, or update attributes (such as the name) of an HTTPS certificate on the system. However, it does not allow a user to update a certificate in place (the "Update from existing PKCS12 Certificate fil...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Enhance SWIFTNet7ClientResend business process to update previously failed filegateway deliveries

Currently SWIFTNet7ClientResend will be triggered via the SWIFT Adapter Scheduler to look at the SWNET_MSG table for failed PUT transfers to SWIFT. Upon detection of these types of failure the scheduler will trigger an execution of the SWIFTNet7Cl...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Include special characters (e.g. @) in Parameter Name of Obscure Data - Process Data Values service

We are using SI 6.0.3.2 and the Parameter Name does not allow special characters such as "@" being used in the Obscure Data - Process Data Values service. This prevents email addresses being used as Names.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Support token based authentication for HTTP adapters and Product REST communications

We are using the 6.1 product REST, the REST Auth.war and a set of custom REST services (the latter two in HTTP Adapters). We have a security challenge on the use of Basic Auth for securing these services which we access via a gateway (Tyk) from a ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Support for EBICS protocol/authentication in the DMZ

To enable EBICS protocol to be authenticated in the DMZ , SSP with SEAS using either LDAP or Sterling B2B Integrator (similar model to SSO token authentication to avoid duplicating authentication).
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

An enhancement request with Product Management to add support for AWS RDS SQL*Server and/or AWS RDS Postgres with Kerberos authentication.

We are migrating existing SQL*Server database (w/ Kerberos authentication) to AWS RDS platform. Current C::D Control Center does NOT support AWS RDS (any databases, such as Postgres). We won;t be able to configure Control Center as IT IS NOT MEET ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Show shipment destination on the Optimizer Results Explainer Dashboard map

Currently the map shown in the Results Explainer Order Summary screen shows a Star icon for the node(s) selected to ship and a Dot icon for nodes considered. If you click on the icon the name/number of the node appears in a popup box. It would be ...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Add user, role management to the BUC tool for users who are administrators

Allow a BUC authorized user with admin privelages to manage OMS users directly in BUC. BUC users should be able to see users by enterprise, team, group or role. Actions allowed should be to delete a user, create a user, or update a user's informat...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Future consideration

modifyItem Category should allow an action attribute of "manage"

In keeping with the purpose of the manageItem api, allow an action of "manage" on the action attribute on the Category node. This value should cause the association to be made if it does not exist and be ignored if it does exist. Furthermore, if t...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration