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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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Provide an ACTIVE MAP report - need to see a report of top maps being utilized.

Helps us to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps usage.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Future consideration

Reduce the patch time by downloading the binaries prior to scheduled time.

In scheduled patching job , download the patch to CD server happens at the start of scheduled time. This dramatically increase the patching window and becomes un certain when the actual patching will start. The ask here is to download the binaries...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Planned for future release

Create a feature in CCD to Create / renewal a Connect Direct Certificate

The current process is to use openssl/ikeyman tools to create Cert request. This cert request get uploaded to CA to receive a signed certificate. This signed certificated is downloaded and a keystore is created. This keystore is then uploaded to C...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Planned for future release

Enable CCD to deploy patches in Iseries and Tandem estate

We have a significant tandem and iseries estate in the organisation. Following a CCD process to upgrade a patching on these platforms will create a standard CD patching across the estate.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Create a back out process for CD Windows patching

The current version of CD patching via CCD does not have a process to back out the patch incase of issues. The ask is to create a backout process and trigger it via CCD console if need be.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1

Logging is needed WHO and WHEN downloaded a file from Sterling Dashboard or FileGateway

When debuging file flows it is useful to see how the file looked before the transformation and how it looks after transformations. Due to compliance reasons on production systems it is necessary to see WHO and WHEN downloaded the file and viewed i...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Custom Email Body option under Email Notification (ERN) in Config Center Tool in Reporting section

In existing Config Center Email Notification will configured to report the Customers/Partners on data failure's, communications failure's and according to Probable failure type in ERN level default template is there and that will fetch as body and...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Restarting a flow where we want a subset that originally tracked red to re-process while ignoring others that originally tracked green.

SCBN Customers send batch outbound files for multiple Partners and some times due to Tranlsation, Configuration or System Outages some of the transactions impacted and failed in the batch and once the issue resolved and we or Customer want to rest...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

On the Code (List) Info form, put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data fields much wider

Please put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data entry field as wide, or wider, than the size of the Description data entry field.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Order Service - Sync of new orders and updated Order into Order Service (order summary) and sync of orders deleted from history into Order Archive

Currently we have to enable : 1. URL for Order service to enable it to connect OMS to Order Service 2. Start OrderArchive agent for moving the deleted orders from OMS history into Order Archive in Order Service 3. SSI delayed sync agent - for any ...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration