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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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ITX - Allow MapTrace to continue after first error

Currently, the MapTrace halts/stops after the first error is encountered. This makes debugging issues and correcting input data difficult, as only one error can be fixed at a time, then the file needs to be re-run to check if there are any other f...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 4 Needs more information

Please provide an option to retrieve or reset the admin password.

We require a solution to reset or recover the SSP CM admin password, which is essential for exporting and importing configurations across various environments.
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

retrieve the entitlement_mode for payloads and events records

When using the Trace API - Get Payload or Events - I do not get the information for attribute "entitlement_mode". This could be helpfull to check what entitlement mode is currently applied. This already works for Products, Locations.
7 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 4 Needs more information

CDWS: certificate-based authentication to C:D nodes

currently in CDWS Web-GUI user-logon screen it's only possible to login to a C:D node by providing USER-ID + PWD. e.g. https://cdws:9443/cdws-ui/login certificate-based authentication is only available for REST clients according to the documentati...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Download more than 10,000 lines in InFlight at a time

For billing each month, we are required to pull our own report in InFlight for the amount of documents processed for each month. Currently we are only able to download 10,000 lines at a time into an excel spreadsheet. It is very time consuming to ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

AES-256 encryption for .bin file creation

we understand that when a .bin file is created via lcu.jar it is encrypted with AES-128. We would like to see this encryption increased to AES-256 to satisfy our Security requirements.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Export of Supply Audit Table

Is there an approach that would allow a user to get an audit history for all Items for a specific Tenant/Enterprise and receive the data in a format that can be converted to a CSV file. The intent is to have a business user be able to evaluate all...
11 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

Ad Hoc Report Functionality

In version 6.1.3 and earlier when a report is run, the user has the option to keep/download in different versions such as pdf, xls, csv, etc and to email the report. However, in version 6.2, this ad hoc functionality has been removed. While an ad ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release