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Add Transfer Method in use (Text or Binary) for CDW and CDU

During our transfers from remote partners, we are frequently called to assist others with translation and file transport issues. Many of our remote users are unaware of the CD processes in use and how they function. We need to have the ability to ...
29 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Show IPs from external connection

When the product ConnectDirect recive conection from other servers like GSLB or conections from other servers and it gets for example FMH68 or other, Its interesting konws from which servers its comming this connection, because its imposible deter...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Improve Message ID XCMM005I

Actually to know what user is that who gets the error XCMM005I its necessary explore the logs and see the line before from the next message: STAR=20250527 09:07:23.950|CCOD=8|RECI=XCMM|RECC=CAEV|OSID=3589|TZDI=7200|MSGI=XCMM005I|MSGT=The submit co...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Add Certificate Expiration Date to the list of fields logged for a partner certificate CERT= log event

Currently when a partner connects to our Connect:Direct server and negotiates a successful SecurePlus TLS connection, we can see other details of their X.509 certificate CERT= field like Common Name, Locality, State, Country, Serial Number and Fin...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

introduction of query parameter or new function for exact match search

when we try to find a specific user credential using its name and the partner it belongs to , the API performas a like search and returning multiple matches. Looks like, for the profileConfigName query parameter, this API is deviating from the sta...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

PEM application should have a user interface option for data deletion for all the components

In order to conduct penetration testing and identify vulnerabilities, it is sometimes necessary to create specific resources to assess how these vulnerabilities could be exploited. However, it is crucial to emphasize that the data or files generat...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Adding scheduler functionality in PEM just like we have in SI.

Hi Team, I am writing in regarding to a missing functionality in IBM PEM which is Scheduler. Currently, in PEM whatever we want to do can only be done via an Activity and to make it happen we need to manually execute an activity everytime we want ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Future consideration

Capability to suppress emails as part of onboarding partners

As part of the partner onboarding when a customer wants to onboard partner to PEM emails notification on the onboarding status gets generated. We currently dont see any configurable options to control the behavior of the application. So customer w...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration

Only fixed email templates can be used with API sponsors/{sponsorContext}/sendemail

Right now, we have fixed email templates within PEM which we can use to link with this send-email API. Meaning if their is a new need then the only option we have to change any of the existing template and no other way. Please see that we should h...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration