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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...
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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...
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All ideas

    Allow C:D To handle Protected IDs from TSS with a RACROUTE Check with passchk(no)

    This would benefit any TSS user that was previously using NOPW on user IDs and converting them to PROTECTED.  Once they are PROTECTED, if you specified USER,PASS (which a lot of our JCL and our clients JCL does) the jobs start to fail, as thi...
    about 13 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

    Allow C:D To handle Protected IDs from TSS with a RACROUTE Check with passchk(no)

    This would benefit any TSS user that was previously using NOPW on user IDs and converting them to PROTECTED.  Once they are PROTECTED, if you specified USER,PASS (which a lot of our JCL and our clients JCL does) the jobs start to fail, as thi...
    about 13 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

    Enhance Validation Logic for External User Creation in B2Bi

    While creating user in B2Bi, we see that for External Users, the Authentication Type field is not mandatory. This behaviour is consistently observed in both UI and B2Bi APIs. This impacts our automation as the user creation logic in B2bi currently...
    about 14 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Submitted

    Separate order creation lead time from fulfillment Lead Time for automatic order creation from delivery schedule for contract orders

    For B2B customers, contract orders are often used for products that need to be procured from suppliers in advance based on a scheduled delivery date. The sales order needs to be created sufficiently early to allow the business to: Trigger procure...
    about 20 hours ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

    We need a supported way to load Quantum Metrics so that session replay captures the full COM user interface, including content inside the inner container where Order, Product, Return, and Customer screens render.

    We inject the analytics script into COM iframes via the shell extension (qm-loader.js). With this, we are able to capture content inside inner iframes. Observation: Intermittent blank content in COM iframes during QM session replay.Capture is inco...
    1 day ago in Call Center 0 Submitted

    Native Support for Quotation Number in B2B Order Lifecycle

    Quotation-based ordering is a common B2B business process. In the Estimate/Quotation process, a quotation number is generated and needs to be carried forward and associated with the subsequent order(s) created from the quotation. The quotation num...
    2 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

    Bulk amendment of Requested delivery date capability in order hub for B2B use cases

    B2B retailers often need to amend multiple existing orders simultaneously based on customer requests or business events. One common requirement is to bulk change the Requested Delivery Date for multiple orders, either at the order level or order-l...
    2 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

    Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Sterling Secure Proxy

    Quantum computing presents a significant long-term risk to several widely deployed cryptographic algorithms currently used to protect data in transit, including RSA, ECDHE, and DHE, which form the foundation of modern TLS implementations. The imme...
    18 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Under review

    IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services 6.4 Suport for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.x

    Customer is creating a new environment and it's intent is to have the latest version of CDWS and OS. Customer is using RHEL 10.2 but the documentatio (below) states that the version supported is up do 9.x. Customer needs that CDWS supports at leas...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2

    DB Password to be fetched from Password Safe like HarshiCorp

    Sterling Integrator should retrieve the database password dynamically from a credential vault solution such as HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk. Password rotation performed in the vault should be transparent to the application, without requiring servic...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Submitted

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