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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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Display the SST Metric Data Correctly

Please refer to TS016456569. When the app system down happened due to max heap usage, the SST metrics display the heap or Default executor threads reached the max by searching a small window (30 minutes) under application server JVM metrics. Howev...
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

PGP Encryption/Decryption of a file with multiple recipients

Trading Partners may encrypt a file using multi-recipient encryption. For instance, they may encrypt a file with our Public PGP key as well as their own key. When we receive that file, we should be able to decrypt using our private key. Symantec a...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Logs for who viewed/downloaded files in SFG

Currently we have users in sterling file gateway where these users have permissions to view and replay files. We would like to see who viewed the files from the SFG console. We have looked at ui.logs, security.logs, authentication.logs but we don'...
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Code lists that can be conditional.

It would be good if you could have code lists that are conditional so that these can be updated easily without being a full-blown configuration change. We have different plants that use specific MRP Types and Lot Sizing Procedures. The list of val...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

USER Management API

Development of an API that can create and update user account, roles, and set permissions. An API of this nature would allow IT Management programs such as Saviynt to dynamically control user access within the application based on client's own Ide...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network)

There is a requirement from customer to have Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network).
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Passwordless connection to built-in local PostgreSQL

This enhancement should allow to use alternate access options to local PostgreSQL other than locally encrypted password to PostgreSQL user. Proposed solutions include: certificate-based authentication (preferred, if technically feasable) password ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Ability to be able to toggle to view all usage, scheduled usage and unscheduled usage in the usage table by clicking a check box

This feature would allow the user to easily view all usage for an item instead of having to add up all the usage from the issues table. The user could then also see the breakdown between scheduled and unscheduled usage to make a more informed deci...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Multiarch DTK support for mac M1 users running OMoC projects

KC currently points towards mac support however this doesn't cover M1/M2 chip architecture with OMoCDTK needs to be enhance to support latest chipset.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration