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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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SMART OPS MONITOR - Strengthen ops side of Product - Product which caters Devops needs

The world is trying to move to devops slowly. Today , If we take OMS side, who ever implements the product to a customer, they sell them by showing the ready to deploy code , development accelerators which helps customer to go to market faster wit...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

BPN Tool - improve Audit Log search to show more relevant results

We use BPN TOOL - Audit Log to identify what routing rules have been added, changed deleted. I found that when I searched for rule name containing "SGM" that had one of the assignments updated recently, it did not show me the updated rule. I had t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Mail MIME Service Attachment with Asian characters

Currently when using the Mail Mime Service with FSA to extract attachments, it seems FSA uses the "name" inside "ContentType*" as FileName. Unfortunately for "ContentTypes", Mail Mime Service doesn't seems to be able to read the "name" correctly w...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Processes which are NOT OK should remain in TCQ

In most situations, where a process ends not OK, it is moved from TCQ to statistics, i. e. LSMG244I. Finding the original //SYSIN of the batchjob for repeating is difficult and time consuming. There should be a mechanism (exit, initparm, ...) to i...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Future consideration

Implement SelectMethod attribute for all OMS ListAPI

Suggest to include the SelectMethod handling as the standard attribute for all List APIs.
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Ability to generate/expose OpenAPI specifications for OMS APIs

This idea if implemented can be used by developers, ISVs and clients to refer to API documentation, usage and testing purposes to expedite development and testing purposes. Some of the applications used for system/ application integration like IBM...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

Make (un)zip work in memory like excel adapter

We're working with a MQ-ACE-ITX setup. Being able to use (un)zip in memory would make it possible to work without temp-files to store the data. The excel-adapter has a switch to store/update stuff in memory, a similar way for (un)zip would be great.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Future consideration

Ignore case sensitivity when posting to add servers via API. Duplicate servers are currently not checked via case.

ICC Classic Console (java exception) and Web Dashboard when trying to edit a given node seemingly break when duplicate servers are posted that feature unique server IDs in the database but non-unique node details (hostname, node name). This proble...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration