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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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Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox.

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox. Currently, customers need to send a separate tickle for each file that resides in the on-prem B2Bi mailbox. This is inefficient and would reduce overh...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Sorting of products based on Availability during a call center product search

Call center currently displays list of products independent of items are available or not. When CSR are having a conversation with customer, they need to spend lot of time to identify products with inventory. There should be a mechanism to either ...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Planned for future release

Reporting Capabilities in PEM

It would be really helpful if PEM is having reporting capabilities on Activities and Partners. This would be really helpful for business.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Include PREV link for pagination in the BTS Trace API

With the API as it is right now we can only page forward. If we would like to go backward we would need to store all the previous links on a stack, which makes the API not really stateless. Since you already provide the NEXT link would it be possi...
almost 2 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Not under consideration

Enhance AS2 logging to include TLS information

Currently, Sterling Integrator logs if the connection is using TLS. However, it is lacking the TLS family such as TLS 1.0, TLS1.2, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Cognos reports extract through standard integration mechanisms

We have an inhouse alerting, monitoring and reporting capability that is dependent on receiving data from various applications. We are writing custom reports in Cognos reporting suite to access the data that is needed to deliver our requirements. ...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Functionality already exists

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

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...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future 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 ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration