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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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Additional attributes in the reservation data.

During reservation create/update we want to pass additional attributes associated to reservation, persist it and publish them in the event message along with reservation details. These additional attributes are supporting information for the downs...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Extend processcontrolcriterias CDWS web service in order to run simple transfers on-the-fly

Currently in CDWS the "processcontrolcriterias" web service allows to run Connect Direct transfers using processFile with path to *.cdp process file which must be present on the server prior to Connect Direct transfer execution. For simple transfe...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Make Compatible With Windows 11 Pro

Microsoft is pushing to move to Windows 11
about 1 year ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Improve the search filter options that are available when resubmitting and resending documents in the InFlight application

The search filters are limited when "Input files to restart" and "Output files to resent" are chosen. These search filter conditions need to be the same as the filter conditions that appear in the "Search for Documents" section.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Functionality already exists

Add Certificate Authentication capability to the CD Web Services REST API web interface (swagger).

CD Web Services supports certificate authentication for the web UI and also for REST API calls, but the provided web UI interface for testing REST API (swagger, path is cdws-doc/signOn.html) does not. This makes it difficult to design and test sol...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

SI-564665 jconn42 problem with webMethods

Feature request to ceritfy JDBC Adapter 10.3 to connect to db2 using jConn42.jar
6 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 1 Submitted

Direct option to download multiple input and output files with single click from Inflight tool

This option will help Inflight users to download multiple files
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

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

Extend myFileGateway/SFG such that users can be assigned to multiple organizations where that user can upload/download files within those organizations and have visibility to file movements within that organization

For security, administration, and governance, a user (external or internal) should be able to use a single LDAP account to manage multiple organizations in myFileGateway/SFG, where that LDAP user can upload/download files within those organization...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration

Control Center Director -- Additional Node Upgrade Selection Options

Looking for additional/more robust functionality for additional scoping options when performing CDW and CDU upgrades through CCD. Something like the import a server list .csv , or to be able to create/populate a dynamic large group or list. Select...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration