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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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enhanced PARSE function

In order to use the new PARSE function as a replacement for the old RUN(submap) constructs, the PARSE function should have similar behavior as RUN(submap). This essentially requires 2 enhancements: 1.) We need to pass arguments to PARSE like "-F21...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

Data Extract Agent to send deleted records

Currently the extract agent does not send any data that was deleted from OMS database. This is causing discrepancies with our internal Data warehouse for any data that gets purged in OMS. The main concern is actually Inventory purge. We have a pro...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

PIV Card Support for Sterling MFT/B2B Products

PIV was initially introduced by HSPD-12 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12), in August of 2004. However, it is just now that agencies are being mandated to comply with this directive. The first required delivery date that we know of for ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Future consideration

User Accounts with limited access control to Sterling File Gateway components

Sterling B2B Integrator should provide options to create & assign DENY permissions to Sterling File Gateway components. At present Sterling file gateway does not have the options to create permissions for specific components. We'll have to use...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Functionality already exists

Please turn on the ability to include formulas in new work queues.

We have thoroughly enjoyed the new functionality of being able to create work queues; however, 9 times out of 10, I need to include a simple formula. It can be very painstaking to work these issues through support tickets, and it would be so much ...
12 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Support TLS Certificate authentication in SMTP adapter

Migrating to Microsoft Cloud-hosted SMTP Relay using port 25. Applications are required to have company domain issued TLS certificate for communication when sending to users outside the company.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Provide "null" as value when there is no record of the item

Currently, when we call IV asking for the availability of a SKU that does not exist (eg "Hobbit_250", IV returns "0" units available. But considering that IV has no record of this product, we want IV to return "Null" If there is a record of the pr...
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

SFTP change setting authentication order (password, publickey) in the Two-factor authentication

In Sterling B2B Integrator both the SFTP Server and SFTP Client have Two-factor authentication (publickey, password) are configured to have the authentication sequence fixed as password authentication after public key authentication. However, for ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

We need to a native support of OpenSSL encryption as we have for PGP

Banks needs different ways to enrypt files at rest, and they need native support from the sterling solution instead of using CLI adaprter or other mehods
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration