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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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System is able to support providing control in the request of all availability APIs that ignores safety factor definition while calculating availability.

System is able to support providing control in the request of all availability APIs that ignores safety factor definition while calculating availability. We need this feature for Find In Store Functionality.
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Functionality already exists

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level.

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level. We need this feature same as RTAM in Sterling where inventory can be published.
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Support Partial Cancellation in Reservation

There are use cases when a partial cancellation is needed on an existing reservation before the reservation is consumed e.g. a reservation was made during cart but as items are removed from the cart, partial cancellation has to happen before the f...
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling External Authentication Server do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that en...
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling Secure Proxy do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that end user sessions af...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Order Optimizer direct ingestion of Transit Day information from shipping carriers

Enhance Order Optimizer capabilities to ingest shipping carrier Transit Day information as the carriers provide it. This includes but is not necessarily limited to:1. ingesting a full domestic Transit Day file without further Client filtering of t...
over 5 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Data Maintenance & Management 0 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to remove trusted certificates from Connect Direct Secure + managed servers using Control Center

Currently, Control Center allows the user to import a trusted certificate. However, it would be extremely beneficial if the authorized user could also remove unneeded or expired certificates using Control Center.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

IBM software needs some form of integrity check / digitally signed agent as proof of authenticity

We have a requirement when obtaining software and need IBM to provide an answer around the following requirement: We need to be able to test the source and integrity of the software being installed in the HSD environments. In my experience, this i...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Sending SMS support for IBM Control Center

IBM Control Center can send snmp traps, emails. Our client in middle east shared that if ICC could send sms that would be excellent
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Adapter Containers: Allow container-specific JVM arguments

Right now, if you want to add custom JVM arguments to adapter containers (say for JVM monitoring), this is done via the Performance Tuning wizard. The wizard provides only one field for custom JVM arguments, which are then applied to all adapter c...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists