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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...
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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Enable PUBLIC_KEY Authentication for Inbound Push/Outbound Pull SSH-FTP Configuration

Since PUBLIC_KEY authentication is supported the PUBLIC_KEY option needs to be added to the Authentication Type for Inbound Push and Outbound Pull SSH-FTP. It is already available for Inbound Pull and Outbound Push.

Add support for Windows Server 2019 for Connect:Direct ?

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over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Embed refresh report in PU process

Clients complain that the PU completion email has arrived but yet their analytics reports have not got the latest data. The refresh_report is a separate process. There should be some automation to avoid confusion on clients so once the PU is finis...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 5 Delivered

Ability to use TLS 1.2 for LDAP adapter inside B2B Integrator

Currently LDAP adapter allows only password based authentication. It would be really benefit banks if password & certificate are used for two factor authentication.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Delivered

Allow selection of PGP Profile on the Partner Profile in SFG - currently SFG only allows AFTPGPProfile

File Gateway today only allow the use of the static PGP Profile named 'AFTPGPProfile' - thus allowing only 1 type of PGP encryption to be used platform wide. We have vendors (using AWS S3) that only support the OpenPGP standard / GnuPGP for encryp...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Delivered

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated. Currently, the audit is enabled for supply and demand updates to IV but there is not capability for client to know if an event is generated to webhook or COS. We see there are many instances where ...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Need a "LOOKDOWN" function to find the last object in a series

WTX provides a LOOKUP function to find the first occurence in a series matching a given condition. In some case, it is needed to find the LAST one, and "reversing" the series is not always practical (e.g. : if you want both the first and last obje...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Support for streams in all adapters

New adapters like Excel and PDF are introduced. However they don't have options to stream data to them. This request is to enhance adapters so they support streams by default.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered

map sources to be stored in a documented format

Currently the maps and trees sources are stored in a binary format with optional export to a delimited xml-like format. The request is for ITX to switch to the human readable format as default so rules in maps and tree elements can be easily searc...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Delivered

Add VICS version 6020 for download to WDI 3.3

We are moving to the VICS version 6020 of EDI and would like to be able to download the standards for WDI v3.3
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 0 Delivered