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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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Information systems are not to allow users to compose challenge questions.

Challenge questions must be chosen from an EY-approved list. Information systems are not to allow users to compose challenge questions. During a challenge interaction, the challenge questions are to be selected at random by the information system ...
4 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Submitted

The user’s current password must be validated while changing challenge questions and response phrases.

The user’s current password must be validated while changing challenge questions and response phrases. Authentication is required for changing a user's challenge and response phrases.
4 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Submitted

Description of available Analytics Data Sources

I would like to have available a 'cheat sheet' that describes what data all of the various Analytics Data Sources (Live Export Details, Snapshot Inventory History, etc.) include and what they are meant to capture. We are trying to encourage our us...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Password cannot be obscured in CSR Create property file

Hi Team, We are using HSM to create certificates. While creating a CSR, if I provide the store password as OBSCURED, I am getting the following error. However, if I use a normal password, I do not encounter this error. Please note that we are not ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Expand PCM correlation to allow bigger datasets of key and value pairs

PEM Standard / Partner Community Manager Correlation requirements Customer has a use case where they will be processing large files in B2B via PCM and using ITX for translation. Translation will be outputting correlation data. The high-water mark ...
8 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Update CDZ by Control Center Director

Possibility to update CDZ through Control Center Director
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Decompress and read .tar files

Currently BPN tool is able to unzip and extract only .zip files. We have customers and trading partner ( for Ex : Electrolux) sending us .tar files. Requirements are to unzip the .tar files and extract the files within. This is not possible using ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Can you please have the sterling b2b map editor tested and certified for win11 pro.

win11 is here. this has to happen and i am hoping it will be sooner rather than later.
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect