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Administration & Configuration

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Container enhancement - Set group to 0

Currently the PEM container expects to be run as pemuser:pemgroup (1011:1011). The files and directories inside the image are owned by 1011:1011. When running on OpenShift, a random user id is used to run the container. This user is not able to ex...

Helm chart enhancement - Resources volume

Currently the PEM helm chart only supports one way to supply the DB driver jar to the application: 1. Statically provisioned PV bound to the PVC created by the helm chart A related application, B2Bi, has a helm chart that provides additional optio...

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...

One Activity with the final Name rather than having all activity with the different Name.

Currently in PEM, if we "Mark as Final" one activity with a certain name then we cannot use the same name for any other activity even if we delete that particular activity. This cause a lot of issues with the non-development personal as to which v...
11 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Role based access to unprovision of codelist facility

functionality where unprovision button is only available to first/primary sponsor admin.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

podman support for PEM

RHEL 8 native provides podman instead of docker. While it's possible to install docker ce on RHEL, that puts the user into unsupported area with RHEL 8 support. Would like to have podman as a support container engine.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

Support for STARTTLS with Office 365

There has to be many companies using Outlook with Office 365. This Mail server requires STARTTLS, but it does not work with Pem Standard
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Provisioner activities should acknowledge parent PEM activities on failures

The provisioner activities should send acknowledgement to parent PEM activities on failures, this is must needed else the Parent activity doesn't know what happened to the triggered provisioner activities. The Sponsor admins will be not notified a...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Reporting Capabilities in PEM

It would be really helpful if PEM is having reporting capabilities on Activities and Partners. This would be really helpful for business.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release