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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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HIPAA Pack Compliance Check add additional segment terminator defined in the X12 implementation guide.

Compliance check is failing when the File Separator <FS> x'1C' is used along with carriage return and line feed. <FS><CR><LF> will cause a compliance error, <FS> without the <CR><LF> passes compliance. Com...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Update to SWIFT Pack documentation

Request that the SWIFT pack documentation be updated to include the order of message components that LMF for MT940 (and other message types) requires
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Express for Windows: please provide a silent install (non-interactive)

We would like to automate Connect:Express for Windows instances. We could add arguments to the command line or provide a properties file to setup.exe. Upgrades could be done this way too.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Connect:Express for Z/OS : Possibility of transfers of PDE-E with RECFM=U

Actually, CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS can transfer files whitch are PDS-E except if there RECFM is UNDEFINED. It would be useful that CONNECT:EXPRESS FOR Z/OS could transfer PDS-E with RECFM=U.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Edit value of labels within a pop-up text box

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almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Remember page number throughout navigation

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almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Different icons for sponsor task vs approval task

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almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Default API Headers available to add

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almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Ability to signal a translation error if the max number of loops is reached in a map.

You can indicate the maximum number of loops in a map, but have no way to trigger a translation error if that limit is reached. Currently if the translator hits the maximum number of loops, it does not signal an error but continues on with documen...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Sanity check on number of overall segments or size of resulting document during an import translation

Mapping errors can cause extremely large documents to be created. Currently there is no way to limit this. It should be possible to set a maximum number of segments for a document or on its resulting size and signal a translation error if that thr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration