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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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Adding Email Body via BPN ST tool

There are lot of request in Electrolux project for email flows where we need to deliver the output file as attachment in email and also send email body with some message to the trading partners. Currently, we use ITX map and Attachment Macro to ac...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

I would like to be able to allow a User with developer acl on the webmethods integration server to change the settings of the JDBC Adapter.

I would like to be able to allow a User with developer acl on the webmethods integration server to change the settings of the JDBC Adapter. The developer has Developer ACL. However, there are times when you need to change the settings of JDBC Conn...
4 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Generate longfile name for Connect:Direct transfers in log

We want to utilize transfer logs generated in syslog/task log to do some automation reporting and alerting. However NDM longfile name which reported in SMF type FI isn't written to syslog so we can't get full pictures for file transfers between un...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

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

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 custom filtering to the advanced filter option in the Historical Information Widget

Currently the tables within the tabs of the Historical Information Widget (form views) are able to be sorted but the advance filter option is very limited to only a date range or a (seemingly) random single data point. In my case the data point av...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Rejecting EDI 270 Transaction - Custom Type 7 Business Rule not working as expected in ITXA

Various type of Custom Type 7 Business Rules are not working when trying to validate various segments and elements.
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Hold based rescheduling to update ETD/ETS for scheduled order lines

There is a need for an automated rescheduling feature in OM. Especially on B2B, the requested ship date tends to be important and may often change for order line via integration. In these cases the order line should be rescheduled automatically. C...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add more Ciphers for SSH to security.properties supported by JDK8

Please enable the following Ciphers: diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 diffie-hellman-group15-sha512 diffie-hellman-group16-sha512 rsa2048-sha256 AEAD_AES_128_GCM AEAD_AES_256_GCM hmac-sha11 hmac-sha2-512 Kind Regards
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 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.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release