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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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Configuring Mailbox User Interface through HTTP protocol for Global Mailbox

We recently installed Global Mailbox on existing Sterling Integrator and currently working on migrating partners from traditional SI mailboxes to Global Mailboxes. We use SFTP, NDM (connect direct) and HTTPs protocols for file transmission. For SF...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Allow Workflow to Continue After API has Failed

When creating an API dialog there should be an option to continue workflow even when the API fails. Preferably, it would have conditions to continue based upon what error is received.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting capabilities not available

Monitoring: The only way to investigate the status/traffic of a specific connection is accessing the Event and Audit log files located in the SSP server. This has a deep impact on the usability of the product making the operation activities of Sup...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Report to pull last accessed/last login time for all partners

There seems to be a lack of reporting on historical activity of users/partners in Sterling to be able to determine if an account is active and when it was last active. I'm currently trying to pull a last login/last accessed timestamp for each user...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Sterling Control Center does not show the process number of a Sterling Integrator business process

Sterling Control Center does not display the Connect:Direct process numbers from a Sterling Integrator business process going through the CDSA. This is because the process number is actually not passed from Sterling Integrator to Control Center. T...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Please create a work queue under 9 "QR" for "Quote Review"

As the Inventory get a quote we can add it to the work queue QR, It will enabale plant to prioritise their Plant reviews for quotes.
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

IV Full Sync: Ability to import inventory availability into OMS in batch mode and reset any items to o if there is no open relevant demands in OMS

The loadInvnetoryMismatch API is used to bulk load inventory (supply qty for each SKU/location combination) into OMS and this API has a feature (CompleteInventoryFlag) where the API can reset inv to 0 for any items that are not passed in the input...
almost 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

Include a field on each material to display the highest Business Impact and Moving Code value from any other plant in the business. MAke the field visible in grid view and reports.

When managing inventory at large multi site site operations - this will allow the materials to be consilidated at a central hub. The highest moving, or highest criticality site could be the holding location for any given material, allowing the inv...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters Stanza of Initparm.cfg file. Here is problem Statement : We were able to send the file to DELL ECS S3 Bucket from linux node, for this one we have updated the initparm.cfg file, We hav...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration