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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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More Robust Alerting Options

Currently using out-of-the-box functionality, we can send e-mail alerts or use sms messages to our phones based on the criteria we enter in rules/actions. E-mails are well and good, but for system outages, we prefer sms messaging. Unfortunately, o...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

Only fixed email templates can be used with API sponsors/{sponsorContext}/sendemail

Right now, we have fixed email templates within PEM which we can use to link with this send-email API. Meaning if their is a new need then the only option we have to change any of the existing template and no other way. Please see that we should h...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Get Availability by tag (inventory identifier)

IV does not currently provide availability by tag. It does support taking supplies/demands by tag. OMoC will generate the TagNumber and pass it to IV for supply/demand updates. IV will store them as OMoC had provided. However, you will not be able...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

Custom HTTP Headers Response for B2B Sterling Integrator Applications

Web Application Security is always evolving and new vulnerabilities and hardening futures are being created continously. Many of the vulnerabilities remediation are based of add parameters in the HTTP Response Header. For example: Content-Security...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Make FGArrivedFile REST API useable.

A great use for the Sterling REST API would be to query the FGArrivedFile, FGRoute, and FGDelivery endpoints in order to build a modern delivery dashboard for business users.This is currently impossible with the current implementation due to a cou...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration

Exporting Filesystem Virtual root path in SFG

The reason why exporting the file system virtual roots in Sterling Fileway is beneficial is that we need to export the filesystem paths that are assigned to specific users whenever a CISO, audit, or security team requests verification or audit che...
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Global Mailbox - Replicate New Trading Partners/etc To All Data Centers

When a trading partner is created in one data center, it should replicate to the other data centers. I should not have to export/import the data. This feels like an intentional blocker to push clients to pay for PEM. If it truly is global, what ha...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Add SI Community As Criteria for Data Visibility Groups.

Our company services two different businesses, financial and health care. These are separated within SFG/B2Bi by Community. Within SCC, there is no Data Visibility Group (DVG) criteria that includes Community, or provides an alternate way of keepi...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Fulfillment Overrides at Segment Level

Currently fulfillment overrides only allows you to enable / disable at delivery method level. Ability to enable / disable at delivery method + segment / segment type level would allow ability to enable / disable for different channels (e.g. own si...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Functionality gap - support for signing of SAML AuthRequest to IdP required

It is a requirement of some IdP that AuthRequests sent from SSP to the IdP are signed, currently SSP only supports the signing of the AuthResponse. This is a gap
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration