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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...
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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...
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    Audit logging to support PCI requirements of ADMIN users and their ACTIONS

    From a PCI perspective our people want Audit logging of whenever a user with ADMIN rights updates something in Connect:Direct whether via Secure+ or in the NETMAP or the Functional Authorities or Initparams. Whatever an ADMIN has rights to update,...
    3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3

    SAPSTAT message generation during Schematron validation step - PEPPOL Flow

    Hi Team, This idea is to enable SAPSTAT message generation during Schematron validation step for outbound PEPPOL messages. As per the PEPPOL guidelines, We have enabled PEPPOL validation step for all the PEPPOL outbound messages for the SCBN clien...
    almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Future consideration

    Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

    We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
    about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 7 Future consideration

    Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

    Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025
    7 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

    Putting a limit for number of files being transferred in some time

    we have decided to apply a limit on few of the partners not to dump more than 1000 files in 30 minutes. Otherwise they keep on dumping tonns of files in very short time (like 20 to 30 mins) which ends up consuming all the resources by this partner...
    about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

    Users Need to be able to save their filters

    We have multiple users that monitor different servers and the servers they monitor a particular week can change. It would be a great if users could save their filtered servers under a name that is meaningful to them and then they can select it for...
    4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Submitted

    Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network)

    There is a requirement from customer to have Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network).
    over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

    Add Conection to ISERIES Servers

    Hello, We need to connect Steling control Center Director to ISERIES Servers to manage the configurations of netmap, secure+, Userfile. Actually its not possible with this software (SCCDirector). We are managing more thant 1500 servers with connec...
    7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

    Bulk export maps from ConfigHub/ConfigCenter

    Currently we dont have any option to export all maps (.mxl) from ConfigHub or Config Center. It is a TDS task to support and implementations teams to download all the maps one by one. By implementation this we can save a lot of time. Now a days cu...
    almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Planned for future release

    File transfer to AWS s3 via perimeter server

    On the basis of security concerns Sterling filegateway comes with Perimeter server but when we connect to AWS s3 from SFG there is no option to route file via perimeter server. So to over come this we are raising this idea that when we transfer fi...
    about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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