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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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Show number of records for Block-Mode-Transfers

This Enhancement Request is created following Case TS011846040 (Wrong Statistic Records in File Transfer between C:D for z/OS and C:D for UNIX) The problem is that the number of records is shown as 0 on the sending side in the Statistics for a ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Deferred Processing based on number of documents in a file

e have implemented only the time based deferred processing on SCBN with the minimum timeframe of 180 sec and it seems Electrolux now wants us to implement the batching on the basis of the number of documents as well which is not possible to achiev...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 5 Not under consideration

Ability to display Error Messages while executing SQL queries in DB Query Client

The Database Query Client in OMoC does not display the error message to include the reason for the query execution to fail. IT gives a generic message stating - "Exception while executing query. Please check the query syntax/server logs." or "SQL ...
over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration

Manage/Configure iSeries from ICC

Configuration of Connect Direct and secure+ should be a standard across all supported platforms. Allowing centralised configuration off all connected nodes from within ICC, as to tool was intended for...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Include PREV link for pagination in the BTS Trace API

With the API as it is right now we can only page forward. If we would like to go backward we would need to store all the previous links on a stack, which makes the API not really stateless. Since you already provide the NEXT link would it be possi...
almost 2 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Not under consideration

Provide a way to truncate master data tables similar to how transaction data is truncated via self-serve.

Similar to the "Reset Transaction Db" process on self-serve for OMoC there should also be a reset master data which would include all of the tables classified as MASTER or MASTER and TRANSACTION such as the YFS_ITEM table. There are times when it ...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox.

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox. Currently, customers need to send a separate tickle for each file that resides in the on-prem B2Bi mailbox. This is inefficient and would reduce overh...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Global Data Services (GDS) & Application Continuity and Transaction Guard (ACTG)- Oracle 19c

We would like to take advantages of some features Oracle has to offer in the new space which will increase application uptime and availability during database patching. In our environment in order to support rolling patches and ensure application ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Increase max lenght for Direct Connection input fields - InFlight Protocol setups

We have situations where Trading Partners want to host direct connections like FTP, FTPs, and SFTP. Currently InFlight limits the user name field to 25 characters. We are now encountering partners that insist on using user names longer than this l...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration