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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...
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...

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Operating System version to be collected by ICC and displayed.

Currently Control Center shows the Operating system as UNIX, Windows etc. It would be more beneficial if Control Center could display the actual OS version , eg Windows 2012, RedHat 6.8.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Provide a way to truncate master data tables similar to how transaction data is truncated via self-serve.

Similar to the "Reset Transaction Db" process on self-serve for OMoC there should also be a reset master data which would include all of the tables classified as MASTER or MASTER and TRANSACTION such as the YFS_ITEM table. There are times when it ...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

File Transmission API for B2Bi

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Automated solar aquaponic garden

To help speed up the growing process. Each plant from seed to harvest is programmed through blockchain. I’d like to build onto the project by adding cannabis cryptocurrency insurance with a cannabis fund under 506 b.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Integrate iKeyman with Connect Direct Web Services

IBM Control Center and IBM Connect Direct Secure + both have iKeyman integrated/included with the product. Why isn't this the case for Connect Direct Web Services?
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Inventory demand and Supply entries should not be made to additional tables for Non Hot items after enabling hot sku

It is not acceptable to have record put into the additional tables for items that are not hot. We are this behaviour after enabling the Hotsku feature in 9.3. All the items are marked as having infinite inventory but the demand is being synced w...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Implement 'Hold' for a bulk product order for up to 30mins (or XX mins) as per OMoC SF ticket TS002131182

Add following functionality for 'On Hold' bulk items up to XX mins. As per following scenario ... We have created a remorse hold, to hold order's for 30 mins. To resolve the hold, we have created hold processing agent which is abstract transaction...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

UCD Self Status / SST Final Status of a process to reflect the success / failure of underlying action.

Following on from Shop Direct SF ticket TS002163187, the CDT 'Import CDT' process was failed because of a known failure issue regarding PLT_PROPERTY and PLT_PROPERTY_METADATA being Append Only. The UCD process expected this failure of the called C...
almost 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Functionality already exists

Allow for search on File Names (src, dest) in Unix / Linux

This is a great functionality and already present in CD for Windows. Can we please get the same functionality in Unix/Linux
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release