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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...
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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...
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    Increase VALUE column length from 100 characters to 255 in ACT_NON_XFER table.

    The reports regarding table ACT_NON_XFER in the Sterling Integrator Database, show incomplete information. The VALUE column is capped at 100 characters, resulting in incomplete visualization of values such as mailboxes. We are suggesting to change...
    about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 2 Future consideration

    Support Ubuntu OS

    Would provide additional options for installation using open-source systems for additional flexibility
    9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

    Automate certificate management

    TLS cert life spans are going to become very short by 2029 (https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days). This effectively means that everyone who uses Sterling file transfer products will have to have...
    9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

    Enable SIP to securely publish/subscribe to Kafka topics using mutual TLS authentication for secure data exchange

    We are currently in the process of deploying SIP services on AWS. As part of this initiative, we need to integrate with our existing Kafka infrastructure at Adidas, which enforces mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication. To support this, we are exploring...
    9 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

    Change the process to do 'Reset to Default' in Order Hub to view the newly added OOB search filter in the UI.

    There is a need to do 'Reset to Default' in Order Hub post every deployment when a OOB search filter is added on search screen. Else it is not visible. Idea is to remove the need to do that. Typically from user perspective they find it very hard t...
    about 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

    Enable FTP, SFTP 1.0, and HTTP client adapters to support all asi nodes

    Customer is planning to use horizontal pod autoscaling in B2BI/SFG such that if the CPU usage gets too high on ASI node one, it will automatically scale out another. The issues is not all client adapters support running on "all ASI nodes". They re...
    9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

    WTX/ITX Oracle adapter - automatic failover implementation

    We are using the WTX/ITX Oracle adapter for our connection with an Oracle Exadata database. In case of database failure, Exadate switch automaticly to the second cluster node. >> Problem : At the switch time, all running maps faile with ...
    almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

    MRS equivalent for ITX

    For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

    PGP Encryption/Decryption of a file with multiple recipients

    Trading Partners may encrypt a file using multi-recipient encryption. For instance, they may encrypt a file with our Public PGP key as well as their own key. When we receive that file, we should be able to decrypt using our private key. Symantec a...
    about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

    Control Center Certificate Expiration Warning Notification

    The Certificate Expiration warning rule that comes with Control Center produces a warning if a Connect Direct Secure Plus certificate is going to expire within 60 days. However, there is no known notification for Control Center's certificate which...
    over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 8 Functionality already exists

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