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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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Improve the behaviour when adding/modifying DET's

When modifying DET's you can not add a field from the window in the bottom right of the box unless you add it to then end of the string. Also if you add a field mid string, it it not likely to work by using the field display name, you need to type...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

Ability to designate service type based on Keycity.

Ability to designate service type based on Keycity. This would be an enhanced KeyCity option. We can load the key cities into the tool and then designate that all shipments are express even if ground can hit SLA. Better Consumer Experience. Allows...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Delivered

AdjustmentType for Manual is missing in SIM

getAjustmentReasonList API is unusable since there is no WMS screen to create Adjustment Reason at store level. Alternate solutions: - Use Common Code List to maintain adjustment reason. Maintained from Application manager - Use Custom table to ma...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement 0 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for SEAS

SEAS currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a new instance of SEASand its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful to kno...

RHEL8/RH8 Support for Sterling B2B Integrator

End of Support With the "End of Support" notification for SI 5.2.6 recently announced, preparation to upgrade to SI 6.0.0 is essential. SI 6.0.0.1 currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a ...

FTP Client Begin Service to support _ENCRYPTED password

Custom protocols in FileGateway can include _ENCRYPTED as an option on password definition. However, the FTP Client Begin Service does not support passwords which are encrypted by this method
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Delivered

Duplicate rules and/or actions in Control Center 6.2.1

Prior to version 6.2, rules and/or actions could be duplicated by using the classic console. During the duplication action, the user changes the necessary information in order to make the new rule/action unique. I don't see a way to do this in ver...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

TX Email Adapter support for SMTP authentication.

The email adapter needs to support the authentication features of Enhanced SMTP. My shop switched to use of ESMTP nearly 3 years ago. I have to have my TX servers whitelisted by my IT Security department on our internal email server because all em...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Delivered

Add C:D support for Windows 11

Windows 11 nor Windows Server 2022 is not supported by C:D Windows 6.x series.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Delivered

Include Interchange Recipient Internal ID option in the EDIFACT UNH envelope

In SPE02 while working on client Celestica we came across a limitation for the EDIFACT UNH envelope options. Celestica has two SAP systems A1 and GT. catering for plants of different regions involving multiple vendor codes. A1 SAP system is identi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Delivered