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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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Control center rule mute option for specific timestamp

We want IBM control center monitor to not send alert during daily restart of SFG nodes.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Need consent before exposing customer's name to others in Sandbox

If you try to register a facility, you can see other users in the drop-down list, but uses have not accepted the exposure to others.
almost 2 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Functionality already exists

Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Databa...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Return Authorization Id not updating on the CHARGE record

For the VISA credit card payment type bank mandate the authroization before giving refund to the customer. Currently with the payment agent configuration in reverse logistics not adding the Authorization record against return order in yfs_Charge_t...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Accept Signed EERP Requests OFTP2

I recently went added an OFTP2 connection in PROD between IBM customer Thyssen Krupp and their TP WST. We send the file successfully and TP has confirmed they receive the file successfully put it stays in "processing" status on our side as if they...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

Order hub to include an order/shipment level attribute to filter the orders and shipments to be considered for workspace

Enterprises require to filter out certain orders/shipment where there are fulfillment manatgers resposinsible for a captergory of orders. The Orders and shipments are to have a filter attribiues that should be populated by implementation.
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Global Data Services (GDS) & Application Continuity and Transaction Guard (ACTG)- Oracle 19c

We would like to take advantages of some features Oracle has to offer in the new space which will increase application uptime and availability during database patching. In our environment in order to support rolling patches and ensure application ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Extend the map compile timeout from its current preset which has been set to 120 sec

Currently, the ssftpdeploy process has 120 seconds for the map compile timeout as a preset value and few of our systems are timing out before the completion of deploying the msl. I would like to check on two options to resolve the issue - 1) If th...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Future consideration

Show number of records for Block-Mode-Transfers

This Enhancement Request is created following Case TS011846040 (Wrong Statistic Records in File Transfer between C:D for z/OS and C:D for UNIX) The problem is that the number of records is shown as 0 on the sending side in the Statistics for a ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration