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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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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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Item Change Request Form for Processors is different from Requestors

When a requestor submits a CR, they see the "Current" values and the "Requested" values, but from the processor's view - they are unable to see the "Current" values
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

make "in list" filtering work as a "select from list"

When you use a filter of "in list" or "one of" the user has to type out individual values, which can be difficult for users to know exactly what values are acceptable. - if the field is "list" based, we should provide the list and allow the user t...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Overwrite protection for transferred files

The current file transfer process lacks an essential feature: the ability to control file overwrites when a transferred file shares the same name as an existing file at the destination. We propose implementing a checkbox option to enable or disabl...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Future consideration

Checbox to enable/disable error notifications if file in the source location does not match the naming pattern defined in Data Flow

Currently, when adding file naming pattern in DataFlow, PEM CM sends error notifications via email for every file in the source location that doesn't match specified naming pattern. The error notification is sent even if the file in the source mat...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration

CyberArk AAM Integration

We use CyberarkAAM with CCP to manage system to system logins, and have a requirement for rotating passwords. Currently no where in SBI (properties files, sandbox, partner setups, etc) has the ability to setup outbound connections with rotating pa...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

ConfigHub -- provision to update codelist in ConfigHub portal

Currently, the only available option to modify codelist is to download the corresponding codelist as CSV file, add new codelist entries or modify entries to the CSV file, and then upload the updated CSV file into confighub with a new version. It...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Provision to update code-list in ConfigHub

Currently, the only available option for codelist update from Confighub is to download it as a CSV file, add new codelist entries to the CSV file, and then upload the updated CSV file into ConfigHub with a new version. It would be beneficial to ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration