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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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Enable user exits for the Connect Direct Server Adapter

The Connect Direct Server Adapter in B2B Integrator supports the Connect Direct transmissions protocol but does not support other Connect Direct features which are of value to our customers. If the CDSA could function more closely to a Connect:Dir...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Planned for future release

CDWS - certificate-based authentication - CLIENT certificate differentiation

We use standard connection path for certificate-based authentication: CLIENT (for example curl command) -> CDWS (CD Web Services) -> CD (Connect Direct) Let's assume that: CLIENT uses client certificate with CNAME=cert1 CDWS server uses cert...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Improve the Secure + Key Certificates Report and Trusted Certificates Report

Please add the validity dates (start and expiration) to the Secure + Key Certificates Report and the Trusted Certificates Report. This is useful information that is often needed and would assist in the management of key and trusted certificates.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

The support of T2S had been requesed in 2022 but was't taken into consideration. We are resubmitting this request to be reconsidered for the next ITX Financial Payments roadmap. Banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPa...

comprehensive search facility in PR

We need a comprehensive search facility in PR compared to what is there now. There are many to search in the PEM DB via PR. We probably can use a series of API calls but that is cumbersome to use. So having more advanced search options in PR will ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Planned for future release

PUT call should allow the content of the key to be updated.

For KNOWN_HOST_KEY and AUTHROZIED_USER_KEY the PUT calls are only Enabling/Disabling the status of key nothing else. We want that PUT call to be able to update the content of the KEY itself. Meaning, with the PUT call, I should be able to edit the...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

RabbitMQ integration

At this moment there is no way to connect with RabbitMQ topics or queus in a native way using B2Bi. RabbitMQ has AMQP as default protocol so it would be useful to have this possibility. A second option is to use the JMS 1.1 interface since RabbitM...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

data anonymization/masking (typetree attribute + test mode)

There are 2 requirements that lead to this idea: 1.) external requirements like GDPR force us to anonymize/pseudonymize data in non-production environments2.) A-B-testing would be much easier if we can mask dynamic attributes (e.g. timestamps) Thi...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

We would like the ability to add docs/pictures to materials in bulk.

After performing annual inventory counts, there are many useful pictures that we would like to be able to upload at once. In attention to pictures, there may be spec sheets from the manufacturer, test records, etc. It can be time consuming to add ...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Able to fetch results using custom fields in Pick Summary list

Need the API to fetch results using custom fields in Pick Summary list eg:Using references in the fields or fetching results by order_by using any custom field in the references API Details: Get List of Pick Requests available for the tenant and s...
6 months ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration