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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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SEAS Validating ISAM Token

Currently SEAS has the ability to integrate with IBM product ISAM ( IBM security access manager ) and authenticate the userid and password provided by SSP. In this case SEAS generates SSO Token after successful authentication. Customer requiremen...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Provide additional granularity for the UPPER.CASE= initialization parameter

Currently, as documented in the C:D for zOS V5.2 Administration Guide, the UPPER.CASE= parameter determines if initialization messages are send to the console in Upper (YES) or Lower/Mixed case (NO). However, this parameter also dictates if inform...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Is a defect

Allow passwords longer than 28 characters for LDAP users

The password field on the SBI dashboard login page is restricted to a maximum of 28 characters. However external users who are using LDAP for authentication can have passwords longer than this value, which makes it impossible for these users to lo...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Enable purging data from transaction tables directly, instead of first purging to history

We currently have userexit purgeOrderToExternalDataStoreUE for purgeOrder. This was provided by IBM on our request. We are using this currently in production. This only covers orders and its related entities, but not shipments, receipts, work orde...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ref Case #:TS001675506, ETS and EAD not getting updated for pickup Orders (Chained Orders) when there is change in PO ETA

Whenever there is change in PO ETA, For Pickup Orders Orders (Chained Orders) ETS, EAD are not updated correctly. More details can be found at case#: TS001675506 Link: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001H8r3pAAB/ets-not-getting-upda...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Provide count for the number of items we select on Config Center - CTE and PROD.

When we log into CTE or PROD and go to customer business alias. Go under Translation section and navigate through Basic Translation, Codelist, Deferred Processing, Document Extraction, Envelopes, Global control numbers, Maps, Sequence Numbers, Sta...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Control Center 6.1.2 Web Console - Active Alerts and Queued Activity in One Screen

Prior to 6.1, the Java console can be used to view both Active Alerts and Queued Activity from one screen. However, in 6.1 and above this is not possible in the Web console. The user would either need to open another window or tab and log in a sec...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Control Center 6.1.2 - Add Server Groups as a filterable item in the Active Alerts screen

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almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Enable client certificate authentication configuration in Inflight for HTTPs Setup

HTTPs allows both Basic Authentication and Client certificate authentication.Inability of setting up client certificate authentication in SCBN for HTTPs is upsetting the client who prefers to have one connection setup against multiple , potentiall...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 4 Not under consideration

Increase max lenght for Direct Connection input fields - InFlight Protocol setups

We have situations where Trading Partners want to host direct connections like FTP, FTPs, and SFTP. Currently InFlight limits the user name field to 25 characters. We are now encountering partners that insist on using user names longer than this l...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration