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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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Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Ability to edit/change the SFG partner community

Currently there is no way to edit or change the SFG partner community once it is created within a community. It will be really helpful if there is an option to make that change from within the SFG UI.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

comprehensive search facility in PR

We need a comprehensive search facility in PR compared to what is there now. There are many to search in the PEM DB via PR. We probably can use a series of API calls but that is cumbersome to use. So having more advanced search options in PR will ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 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...
over 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...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

In FinPay PLUS 10.2.3.0 euroSIC messages are missing Business Application Header (BAH)

In the euroSIC schema, the BAH is based on the "classic" head.001.001.01 ( https://www2.swift.com/mystandards/#/mx/head.001.001.01 ) . The header is required for all euroSIC messages.
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Planned for future release

Reference portal/sheet for Services & Support Teams

It is an ongoing activity that new clients keep getting added to Config Hub. With the emphasis on extensive usage of Config Hub over Config Center, it would be ideal for Services and Support Teams to have the information handy, about the clients a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Availability of maps from Config Center CTE to Config Hub

There are many new maps in Config Center (T) which are still under development and being tested by clients. These maps won't be available in Config Hub until they are moved to production. Movement to prod may still take time as clients and trading...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Inflight to flag transactions in RED for HTTPS response codes other than 200 (OK)

Currently Inflight is not checking the errored out responses from remote servers for HTTPS delivery . Files which are not validated and resposnes received are not 200 (OK) are also getting flagged as green . For example for the below file in Infli...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Inflight 0 Not under consideration