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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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Enhance B2B Mail Client Adapter to support IMAP with OAuth 2.0 to connect gmail for Google workspace account

Google Workspace accounts will no longer support less secure apps, third-party apps or devices that ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. to access apps, you must use OAuth2
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Nodes attributes to be part of node availability calls and also in the node availability event publishing 

With IV V2 api , the ship node now can have many attributes . But these attributes are not sent as part of the availability call for the same node , neither in events. To start with even the basic attributes like Country and Node Type will really ...
8 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Capacity assessment of ITXA Rest Server

We are developing ITX maps that will access ITXA codelist for several fields mapping. Below are the expected scenarios: 1. There will be 100s of ITX maps to be developed to access ITXA codelist 2. Each map can access several times in a single exec...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Do not route .part or .lock

We have had a situation where transfers were interrupted and the source kept connecting and startting a transfer and then disconnecting (poorly written in Azure) and it cause ALOT (30 plus) .partial and .lock files. And since this upload directory...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Create the configuration file (bin file) with LCU.bat from an input file

In order to avoid a lot of manual work and administration, we would like to automate the creation of the configuration file (bin file) that is currently done with LCU.bat. For example, with this kind of command: LCU.bat < Config.txt or LCU.bat ...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SEAS rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SEAS m...

SFG File Size column in Activity

When looking at 'Routes' > 'Activity', one can right-click the column headings and add the 'Size'. However, there is no way to save this setting and it disappears once you log off and log back in. I opened Case TS015174429 and they responded wi...
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Allow ITX to handle Protobuf schemas

ITX currently can support AVRO schemas however there are other schemas that may be used depending on circumstances. One of these is the protobuf schema. Can this be added to the suite of schemas supported by ITX?
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub currently and is a good to have feature.

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub from Shipment summary screen. With Application Console getting deprecated it appears to be a good to have feature enabled on Order Hub.
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Expose Max Stops property at API request level instead of currently as static, system wide

This will improve performance when running findInventory and other sourcing APIs. A high value of Max Stops has a significant performance impact so having the ability to dynamically set this property at API request level will add a lot of value.
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 7 Future consideration