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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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Additional attributes in the reservation data.

During reservation create/update we want to pass additional attributes associated to reservation, persist it and publish them in the event message along with reservation details. These additional attributes are supporting information for the downs...
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

B2Bi Sterling Integrator generating invalid delivery status in the application UI following deadlock

In April 2024 an external client submitted a payment file into the B2Bi Sterling Integrator product within my production environment. The file routed and delivered successfully to the remote target system, and the payment file processed through th...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Needs more information

Inflight API Response with all columns/fields which are visible under Inflight UI

Few Customers having the usecases like they need information from other columns for the Inflight API Response along with SenderID,ReceiverID,DocumentType and received time and sent time, because they need other info as well like Reference Number, ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Planned for future release

YFS_PAYMENT entity, TOTAL_CHARGED column data type is limited to Decimal(15,2). Please update to Decimal(15,3)

YFS_PAYMENT entity, TOTAL_CHARGED column data type is limited to Decimal(15,2). Processed amount value more than 3 digits is rounded to 2 which is causing finance discrepancies. For Kuwait and Bahrain markers 1= 1000 Phils which is causing loss of...
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

enable file transfer using smb protocol

In the current state, we will need to mount the samba file shares on the Sterling B2B Integrator hosted servers to be able to access the servers. It would be good to access the files using smb protocol without the need to mount the file shares.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Not under consideration

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Allow PS log file name to be configured with standard name

Currently the PS log file name is like PS.Logger.Dyyyymmmdd.Thhmmss. It should be configurable and follow the same name convention as what's used in CM and SSP etc.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Addition of columns in modern Inflight to reflect EDIFACT UNG SenderID and UNG ReceiverID

Hanon Systems is one of the most crucial customers on-boarded on SCBN with high volumes. Its extremely difficault for Hanon to check each and every EIDFACT message as they have dependency on UNG SenderID and UNG ReceiverID to reconcile the message...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Future consideration

automapper should also work with same input/output types

It is a common pattern to work twice on a output card, e.g.:- when the output should also include summarized amounts of several output records that need to be built/calculated first- when the header should announce how many records will follow Now...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Autmoapper from output to output

The automapper is very useful, but only does input to output. In some cases, we need to prepare mapping in one output card, and enrich it later in a following output card. Currently, it can be done but needs some cards copy and moving, and this wo...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration