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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...
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 PNUM limit to a much higher value (e.g. 1'000'000'000)

PNUM is actually limited to 99999 for most CD implementations. This is very low and has for effect that pnum can rotate very quickly. ICC is for example relying the grouping of CD events on this Process ID (which is a non sense as it's not unique,...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

SST - > Server Configuration Tab-> Enable Sorting based on Columns

SST - > Server Configuration Tab-> Enable Sorting based on Columns. Currently none of the columns are allowing Sorting. Having the ability to sort based on Name,Type,Profile,Number of Instances and Status will be helpful.
10 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Include a field on each material to display the highest Business Impact and Moving Code value from any other plant in the business. MAke the field visible in grid view and reports.

When managing inventory at large multi site site operations - this will allow the materials to be consilidated at a central hub. The highest moving, or highest criticality site could be the holding location for any given material, allowing the inv...
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

CreateNewAS2Relationship API - Improve performance of the API to match that of previous versions using shell script / BP approach

RFE: CreateNewAS2Relationship API Improve performance of the API to match that of previous versions. There was a security fix (IT40683) implemented in B2Bi v6.0.3.7 that was merged up through v6.1.1.3, then v6.1.2.2 impacting AS2 Relationships API...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters Stanza of Initparm.cfg file. Here is problem Statement : We were able to send the file to DELL ECS S3 Bucket from linux node, for this one we have updated the initparm.cfg file, We hav...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

Provision to store Node Availability during release creation for future reference and insights on actual stock position used during allocation

Currently post release (during back-end fulfillment process), Sterling has no insights on the stock position for that item on the node during release creation. Hence it is difficult to reconcile or justify instances where Store and DCs have repo...
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

Legacy SST Download for Stand-alone Applications Manager

Currently, we have some business and support users using the Applications Manager. These users, do not use the Developer Toolkit and currently use the browser-based Applications Manager. With IE and Application Console being phased out, they have ...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

We'd like to propose the introduction of support for configuring multiple Netmap entries for mailboxes that require access from multiple IP ranges.

A partner requires IP restrictions for their mailbox. However, their access originates from multiple locations, resulting in connections from various IP addresses. Unfortunately, the current version of Secure Proxy Engine doesn't support associati...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Onboarding 0 Submitted