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Administration & Configuration

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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

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

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

Single Sign On for PEM

Support Single Sign On for PEM to allow integration with identity management systems. This critical to comply with security requirements and verify user/partner identity. From a user experience, this is needed to provide a more seamless client/par...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Allow Sponsor More Flexibility in Changing Partner Account User Roles

Here is some information on the issues associated with having a main partner admin associated with every PEM partner account. Let's call this the super admin for the purposes of this email. The super admin is the partner admin who is required to r...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 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

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

Add more columns to table

PEM Dialog UI has the Table component, which helps in creating tables in the UI. As per default, the Table creation is limited to 11 columns. We have various scenarios, where we need to fill into more than 11 columns. So, we request for an e...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 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

Provisioner Activity monitoring screen enahancements

The Name filed displayed in provisioner activity screen is not making any sense to the admins , that's a system generated unique key and using that we can't identify / track the activities. The home screen should contain the fields - Provisioner A...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release