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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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Support generic S3-compatible object store for document storage

On the Sterling roadmap is support for backing the B2Bi container document store with cloud object storage. Our company has on-site S3-compatible object storage (via Dell EMC ECS) - please ensure the S3 support includes S3-compatible setups and no...

Add a flag to the get partners API to have the partners custom fields included in the results

For the get partners API (pemws/sponsors/<sponsorContext>/partners/) add an optional flag which indicates that the partners' custom fields should be included in the results. The custom fields are currently returned when retrieving a single p...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Identification of Destination Filename at map level or rule level

Destination filename can be set at map level or rule level based on the client requirements. Recently we had a discussion about the client migration to SPE02 system where report need to be generated whether the destination filename for inbound map...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add support for JN Union HSM devices

This will allow secure use of the platform in China.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Not under consideration

Enhance REST service functionality to accept additional content types.

Vendors such as Adyen have the Content-Type as "application/json; charset=utf-8" rather than the standard application/json content type. The request is to enhance the OMS webservice functionality to accept content types that include the character ...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Order Hub: Streamline Inventory Adjustments across Segments

In prior R2 release, we only had RTL and RTL Store Segments. As such inventory adjustments to a Store Segment occurred as follows: Run an inventory search for a specific Retail Store Segment (RTL-XXX). The inventory adjust logic automatically decr...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Support token based authentication for HTTP adapters and Product REST communications

We are using the 6.1 product REST, the REST Auth.war and a set of custom REST services (the latter two in HTTP Adapters). We have a security challenge on the use of Basic Auth for securing these services which we access via a gateway (Tyk) from a ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Need to have an override property file to prevent wipe of customized settings

With higher volume customers it is common to require customization to property files, especially engine.properties and Engine.log4j. However, with application of an iFix or FixPack (or upgrade), there is a risk that these settings will be lost. B2...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Provide the ability to create custom sponsor user types

Provide a way for a sponsor admin to define custom sponsor user types, beyond the current sponsor admin, LOB and standard users. For the various permissions, there should be a way to indicate what that role can do with each one (nothing, read only...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Not under consideration

Expected Delivery Date Calculation based on item and shipping node combination

We have a requirement to calculate Expected delivery date for following scenarios: 1. Website displays item's availability and Expected delivery date. Item availability information is fetched from the cache, sent by OMS in RTAM feed. OMS can fetch...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration