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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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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

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

Add Reservation demand to the Demand Publish Event.

During reservation create/Update/Delete, demand publish should publish the reservation demand data to the topic. This will help business to make decisions to control the sale real-time during Checkouts and cancels.
12 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Planned for future release

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

Allow External Authentication without create a local user

An user created for example in AD can use the SBI console (or ICC, SSP ...), only with external authentication, not being necessary to create a local user in Sterling. In other platforms the client has, the users just need register in AD, are assi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Validate API for Managed SSL Cert and Managed SSH Key

The out-of-box PEM Portal activities have options for Partners to upload SSL or SSH Keys. In case of a user error, a partner may upload an incorrect file. In such a scenario, the API to store SSL Cert or SSH Key to PR fails and there is no way to ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

CDWindows Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Official CDWindows product support for the Microsoft Windows 2025 OS , for future/standard lifecycle management purposes and continued OS supportability.
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files to Daimler customer via T system because there is an issue with T-system due to missing header information. This has been showstopper for our VAN migration project and le...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Under review

Support First Time Password change between SSP/SEAS and B2Bi managed user accounts and subsequent password change should be allowed via SSP password portal to change the B2Bi password through SEAS.

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over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Future consideration

Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration