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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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Ambiguous Logon Messages For zCD instead of RACF001I, RACF002I

Hello. You have several message IDs for zCD logon security that are not ambiguous. We want you to offer ambiguous logon messages that will not give any hint to an nonauthorized user.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Allow Static Reply-to Email Address

In managing campaigns through PEM, it is best to contact partners through a group email so that if one person is out of office the queries by partners are not delayed. PEM has the ability to hard code the sender to a specific email, but does not h...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Enable Bulk Download of EDI Source Documents

The current process in IBM Sterling Inflight allows users to download individual EDI source documents from the transaction detail view. This works fine for individual file testing and reviews. An option to select multiple transactions and download...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Intrinsic Symbolic Variables for other Connect Direct Platforms

Currently, Intrinsic Symbolic Variables is only available to CD z/OS and CD Windows. This should be made available to other CD platforms as well.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Option for formatting XML in File Details Tab

Input and output documents in XML are difficult to read when not formatted. Current options allow you to specify a character and break on it, but the closest you can come to formatting XML is using the > character and that doesn't put element n...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

enhance Database-Adapter for Oracle to provide insert all statement

due to the performance problems when inserting many rows to oracle database in WAN environment, we need the option of executing an INSERT ALL statement out of the card to target oracle DB. Is it possible to implement this feature to ITX? Single ro...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Planned for future release

Gentran Server Workbench Needs to Support AIX 7.1

Currently Gentran Workbench 6.2 only supports the UNIX operating system up to AIX 6.2. Since support of AIX 6.2 ends April 2017, the software should be upgraded to allow for this.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Planned for future release

Secure Connectivity to iSeries C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to iSeries C:D nodes using a secure logon.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement to PGP Xprocessor functionality

Currently, The PGP XProcessor requires the following fields as input. The XProcessor Driver will look up the fields using the Profile Name and pass that data to the Utility class. Fields for Both Inbound and OutboundThe following fields are requir...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release