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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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Add Search Functionality to Attributes in Company Profile (Directory)

Under Directory>View (CompanyProfile)>Attributes>Edit, we would like to add a search function for attributes. Since there can be up to 100 attribute values for one attribute field, and they are not in any particular order (that we could d...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

REST API support to convert not invited users to registered PEM

We need new REST API marking the status from NotInvited to Registered for PEM users and this only sponsor admin can call. The requirements have been discussed with OM and Dev team (Jagadeesh)
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Pause Monitored File Agents when Monitored CD server is paused

Currently when a CD server is paused and if the File Agent has been stopped, the File Agent shows a down status. When a server is paused, the associated File Agents should be paused as well.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Remove the validation of the X520SerialNumber in the PKI-J toolkit

An error occurred when updating a certificate for a client with a Serial number too long issue. Certicom found that certificate is not valid and cannot be used since the X520SerialNumber contains more than 64 characters which violates the RFC.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Limit the version number for resources

There should be a way/property to limit the number of versions for B2B Integrator artifacts like Business Process, XSLT, Maps, Code Lists. Currently we can have as many versions as created for each of these artifacts and need to manually clean up ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic show/hide UI dialog elements

When trying to make a UI dialog more dynamic, we can currently use labels mapped to XSLT output to generate appropriate text for a partner. E.g. a screen which can show Test, Prod, or both Test and Prod server details in one dialog. Or Inbound, Ou...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Order hub to include an order/shipment level attribute to filter the orders and shipments to be considered for workspace

Enterprises require to filter out certain orders/shipment where there are fulfillment manatgers resposinsible for a captergory of orders. The Orders and shipments are to have a filter attribiues that should be populated by implementation.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Mapping, Transformation from/to Excel

Excel is becoming the usability standard for structured data. On many occassions the CSV file can't be used and formatted in Excel, so natively Excel is being used to exchange data.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Show number of records for Block-Mode-Transfers

This Enhancement Request is created following Case TS011846040 (Wrong Statistic Records in File Transfer between C:D for z/OS and C:D for UNIX) The problem is that the number of records is shown as 0 on the sending side in the Statistics for a ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration