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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...
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...

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Improve debug capabilities on failed maps

When a map is deployed and fails translation, it is very difficult to find out the reason of the failure. A clear report on what has been the failure, as the Translation service of SterlingB2B Integrator, that includes type or error, iteration cou...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

ITXA-Ambiguous ISA Envelopes

Duplicate envelopes created with same SENDER ID and RECEIVER ID with different name of Envelope Name Please check the envelope database table before making an new entry with same SENDERID and RECEIVER ID so that It can generate an error messag...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 2 Not under consideration

Ability to create single relationship setup which can handle multiple folders for FTP/SFTP

Business scenario : Currently our system configuration allows only one FTP/SFTP folder to be pointed under single Sterling Commerce Inflight relationship. Sometimes we get request from client for 1xFTP/SFTP setup but route different file type to r...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Add VDA Version 4938 Global Invoice to Map definitions

This version is required by our trading partners.
9 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Standards 0 Submitted

Modify configureCmSsl.sh and configureEngineSsl.sh to allow for command line paramter passing

the current scripts allow for some parameters to be passed, but when exporting a CM configuration, you must always supply a second passphrase for the encryption of the exported xml file. This parameter cannot be passed without feeding it from your...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct for HPE Nonstop Platform

It was mentioned in HPE NonStop Forum that TLSv1.3 will be coming out later 2019 year. It was also mentioned by HPE that TLSv1.0 is a degraded security protocol and that HPE NonStop Client Applications running on X86 and Itanium Platform need to m...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 6 Future consideration

Develop generic XSL to convert XML to JSON for new XML validation Service

Develop a XSL to convert XML to Json convertion and deploy in XML validation service. This will help us to remove indivdiual ITX maps for those convertions.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Enhance a import feature to import JSON SCHEMA and Swagger(YAML) as type tree

Currently we have capability in ITX to import the JSON file as type tree. But we have a challenge that customers might give all the possible fields and group which are mandatory/conditional in the JSON test file during development. So we end up wi...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Check file upload content with magic bytes

At current situation a malicious user can bypass the file type restrictions for logos in pem-pp application. It is possible to bypass the upload restrictions and upload a disallowed file by changing the file Content-Type to an allowed one. The ser...
9 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Under review