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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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Stand Alone File Agent - Do Path Match

Reference TS011100108. It is my understanding that enhancements have been done with Integrated File Agent, but the same enhancements have not been made to stand alone File Agent. One such enhancement, is to do path matching. With stand alone File ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Easy Routing XML documents based on contain of the file without map

2)Easy Routing XML documents based on contains of the file without map Xml routing can hapeen based contains of the file without map. The product should parse the entire xml and store in DOM. Based on xpath value we can route the documents. ex- ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Inactive Partner Report

Create a reporting process or last envelope modified date so inactive partners can be identified. Inactive partners can be partners with no activity greater than 30 days or 60 days (possible configurable parameter).
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 2 Not under consideration

Allow users to reload documents with a status "available" that have not been picked up in more than 24 hours.

This will provide users the ability to pick up documents that have exhausted the number retries allowed. Today, the only way to fix is by opening a ticket with support to mark the documents as "picked up" so that the user can then reload them to t...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

Enable runtime duplicate envelope check in Config Center

As part of new partner onboardings for all SCBN customers, Implementation team will create envelopes with client and partner EDI ID's on config center and there is always risk of creating duplicate envelopes because of incorrect information from c...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Remove SEAS dependecny for Control Center to authenticate to Active Directory/LDAP

Will avoid another product dependency to AD/LDAP authentication and this also saves another platform that includes server resources. Once this idea is implemented, customers does not need to maintain another servers for SEAS and resources to maint...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Build server for OMoC clients

I am seeing lack of build servers as part of OMoC offering a big challenge with many client small & big. Today the client is responsible to setup this environment and whether they have an extended team to support their implementation or not, t...
almost 6 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Copy to Sharepoint UNC path using WebDAV@SSL protocol instead of SMB/CIFS

currently C:D can copy to Sharepoint shares only using SMB/CIFS protocol we need to copy to a Sharepoint share which is accessible using WebDAV@SSL protocol \\our.sharepoint.local@SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\abcxyz\Shared Documents\destination-folder\
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Gentran Server's compatibility with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".

Ability for Gentran to communicate with unicode with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director 0 Not under consideration