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High Watermark Report

How about adding the high watermark report back to the web client for 6.3. I have to launch the thick client to be able to run this report.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for SEAS

SEAS currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a new instance of SEASand its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful to kno...

RHEL8/RH8 Support for Sterling B2B Integrator

End of Support With the "End of Support" notification for SI 5.2.6 recently announced, preparation to upgrade to SI 6.0.0 is essential. SI 6.0.0.1 currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a ...

FTP Client Begin Service to support _ENCRYPTED password

Custom protocols in FileGateway can include _ENCRYPTED as an option on password definition. However, the FTP Client Begin Service does not support passwords which are encrypted by this method
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security Delivered

TX Email Adapter support for SMTP authentication.

The email adapter needs to support the authentication features of Enhanced SMTP. My shop switched to use of ESMTP nearly 3 years ago. I have to have my TX servers whitelisted by my IT Security department on our internal email server because all em...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters Delivered

High Availability for Connect:Direct File Agent when running behind a load balancer

No description provided
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance Delivered

RTAM publishing old alert quantity

We noticed that the RTAM does not calculate the inventory. but sends the old alert data from the yfs_inventory_alerts table. Issue is not replicable in lower environments , but PMR team suggested this could be due to cache issue in production as t...
over 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Delivered

Make Field Userid optional in Secure+ Admin Tool "Save Active" Panel

When you are using Security Exits for C:D Signon, you do not need to specify a userid at signon. I don't need this at the update job for Secure+ as well. Using the "Save Active" Panel, you have to enter a userid, but you can leave the password fie...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS Delivered

Additional Authentication Exit in SEAS/SSP

External authentication is already achieved through SEAS, however, if additional authentication logic is required then the only way to achieve this is through a SEAS custom exit. Use of a SEAS custom exit means that we have to re-write the existin...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Delivered

User Access Management Enhancement - Filtering and Sorting

User Access Management Enhancement - Filtering and Sorting
over 3 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization Delivered