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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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Enable user exits for the Connect Direct Server Adapter

The Connect Direct Server Adapter in B2B Integrator supports the Connect Direct transmissions protocol but does not support other Connect Direct features which are of value to our customers. If the CDSA could function more closely to a Connect:Dir...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Planned for future release

Suppress the diagnostic data being written to CDESTAE for the SCPA019I error

We observed that there is a dump of the file in DD CDESTAE after the process failed with SCPA019I An input LRECL > output LRECL detected for compressed file. It is an exposure of business data so it would be appreciated if it can be disabled or...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Sorting of products based on Availability during a call center product search

Call center currently displays list of products independent of items are available or not. When CSR are having a conversation with customer, they need to spend lot of time to identify products with inventory. There should be a mechanism to either ...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Call Center 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

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

InFlight - Selected Business Views hover updated to include NOT selected in list

Update the "eyeball" hover in InFlight that shows active business views, to include both the selected and de-selected ones, in some differentiated way. Example (the deselected view in this case might be one that is only used to house Managed AS2 v...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 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

Activity monitoring screen enhancements

It would be really helpful if we add below mentioned columns in the activity monitoring home screen. Activity Status - (Errored / Failed and Success / Completed) : We can't go inside of every activity and check the status of each activity whether ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Control Center needs the ability to pull account passwords from a corporate password manager/vault

Due to security requirements and best practices, passwords should be changed periodically and wherever possible, should not be stored on local systems in text/XML files, etc. Control Center should have an option to utilize external Password Vault ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release