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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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Inactive User Accounts Controls - Administrator Accounts

Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user accounts after a specified period of inactivity may result in unauthorized access, modification, destruction, and/or disclosure of confidential information.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Not under consideration

The need to sometimes have audit / trace created in the locations compiled in when using the REST API of ITX version 10

Observed that when Directory name is set as "Custom" and relative path is mentioned - Audit/Trace File is not created in relative path directory with mentioned name when audit and trace settings is set to "ON" and maps are triggered using REST API...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

JMS parameters in Inflight Delivery Event Details

When the files are delivered to JMS MQ at we are able see only the JMS queue in the Inflight Event details. It would be really helpful if other JMS parameter(SenderNonEDIID, ReceiverNonEDIID & DestinationProtocolSubject) also also being captur...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Request for Close all button in SPE Config:Center

The recent hyperlinking to the Next envelope name is very useful in Config Center. However, for validating one transaction set (Ex: X12 850: ST-GS-ISA 3 envelopes). I end up opening 6 windows as shown in the attached image and 6 times I need to cl...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Set up and track expiration of SSH public key in Authorized Key Store

Add more security to the keys, notification of expiration and renew them after certain period.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Allow Pallet Receiving

The application currently supports receiving at the shipment level and container level, only leaving out pallet. The reason is not clear. Receiving should be allowed at all levels.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. A sample message can be provided if needed. Can the nex...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule the publish of network level availability for a set of DG's

The trigger DgAvailabilityChange Event allow you to publish availability changes for all DG's within a tenant ID. This does not allow us to schedule the publish from within IV and also restrict the data publish to a subset of DG's. Within IV, we n...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Need alerts

IT will help to monitor system
over 6 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

Partner Level Authentication

We are starting to see more and more customers want to move to SSH Key only auth, however, we are not set to that today, nor are all of our customers ready/willing to make that switch. Since the authentication requirement is set at a system level,...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration