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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...
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...

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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 ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Restrict user access to Monitoring section

We have a monitoring team that should not have access to deployment or any section which will make any changes in the environment. Their job is to only monitor the environment. It would be helpful if we could restrict their access to Monitoring ta...
4 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

API to Monitoring download data without logging in

We would like to automate the monitoring process. It is very difficult to login to SST every time and navigate to Monitoring Menu, select all the option and see the very disappointing charts. It would be very useful if we could download the monito...
4 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Allow for Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive

For Windows servers we need the Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive (Per Windows functionality, the service account needs to perform a logging event to retrieve the properties (access/grants/rights) that the user has. For financia...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Support Microsoft Entra ID since we are replacing the use of LDAP

We are moving away as an organization from using LDAP and replacing it with Microsoft Entra ID. Please build in support for that as an additional method of user authentication outside of SFG and B2Bi
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Reference portal/sheet for Services & Support Teams

It is an ongoing activity that new clients keep getting added to Config Hub. With the emphasis on extensive usage of Config Hub over Config Center, it would be ideal for Services and Support Teams to have the information handy, about the clients a...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Availability of maps from Config Center CTE to Config Hub

There are many new maps in Config Center (T) which are still under development and being tested by clients. These maps won't be available in Config Hub until they are moved to production. Movement to prod may still take time as clients and trading...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Inflight to flag transactions in RED for HTTPS response codes other than 200 (OK)

Currently Inflight is not checking the errored out responses from remote servers for HTTPS delivery . Files which are not validated and resposnes received are not 200 (OK) are also getting flagged as green . For example for the below file in Infli...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

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

Need SSL/TLS support for Global Mailbox to post its events to Control Center

Most other connections are firmly secured in B2Bi/SFG/GM, with one significant exception; the ability to post events and heartbeats from Global Mailbox to Control Center (ICC or CCM). By default, CCM 6.2 disables its non-secure web port, 58082. Si...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release