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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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Change wording of Close Activity dialog

When the dialog appears for closing an activity the options are "Close" and "Cancel". This is mildly confusing for the user, as usually "Close" means close the dialog. Also, the close button appears in different places (see attachment for further ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add New User ID Variable for Partner Invitation Email Templates

Sponsors (e.g. US Bank) want to be able to include the User ID that the partner should be using when they register in the partner invitation email.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Daily file listing invoices submitted through Inflight

I would like to have a file sent daily which lists all invoices sent through Inflight for the previous 24 hours. The purpose of this file is so I can automate a validation against what our ERP system says it should have exported and compare agains...
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Improve JSON mapping

JSON handling is very static. The entire JSON structure must be predefined and we can only string-substitue into values. When API calls require certain keys to be included or excluded depending on the operation, this means we must create multiple ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Not under consideration

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers (Not MQ FTE) using IBM Control Center

Could you please add the capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers using IBM Control Center.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Enable FASP support via SSP Perimeter Servers

We recently learnt via a support ticket (as this is currently undocumented at the time of writing) that SSP is unable to route the UDP traffic used by C:D's High-Speed Add-On FASP through SSP Perimeter Servers. This severely limits the scenarios w...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Order hub to include an order/shipment level attribute to filter the orders and shipments to be considered for workspace

Enterprises require to filter out certain orders/shipment where there are fulfillment manatgers resposinsible for a captergory of orders. The Orders and shipments are to have a filter attribiues that should be populated by implementation.
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

DBCS directory/file name support in CD Process

Customers in China often creates directory and file name in Chinese. C:D doesn't support src/dest file path containing DBCS. Request to enahnce the C:D Win/Linux/Unix product by adding an additional parameter in CD Process to specify the encoding ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 0 Not under consideration

Show number of records for Block-Mode-Transfers

This Enhancement Request is created following Case TS011846040 (Wrong Statistic Records in File Transfer between C:D for z/OS and C:D for UNIX) The problem is that the number of records is shown as 0 on the sending side in the Statistics for a ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration