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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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Inflight - EDIT option for updating the Trading Partner Names

We are adding the Names in Inflight for New Client ID and Partner ID. When we want to change the display of names, we need to delete and need to create again. Right now we have an option of ADD & DELETE only, If we have an Option of EDIT for T...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Delivered

InFlight portal, reprocess multiple messages at once

We cannot reprocess messages more than one at a time (this can cause an increase in workload and longer recovery times if we need to do a bulk reprocessing for any reason).We need to be able todo bulk reprocessing from InFlight.At the moment we ca...
about 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 6 Delivered

Ability to tie a payment refund request with the settlement and authorization transactions.

When processing payment refunds through the Adyen payment gateway, Adyen requires the refund request to be linked to the authorization id (PSP reference in Adyen terminology). For processing refunds through Paypal, Paypal requires you to link the ...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 6 Delivered

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Configure Global Safety Stock by Node Type

Environment DetailsCoC - 18.2 Business Requirement:Consider the following scenario to better explain the exact requirement - Item ID - 123Onhand Inventory in DC - 100Onhand Inventory in Stores (all stores combined) - 100Safety Factor (DC) - 0Safet...
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Delivered

Wildcards to send PDS datasets to Linux/Windows directories

Actually it's not possible to send PDS members from CDzOS to CDLinux or CDWindows, using wildcards, f.i. USER.PDS.DSN(*) to /user/path/*. We have several applications that are using other products like XCOM or MQFTE, and with these products it's p...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

Safety Stock at Node Level

Enhancements to support Safety Stock at Node Level. Would require an IV API which accepts input at Ship Node and Safety Stock quantity. Node Level Safety Stock applies to all items present in the ship node if there is no safety stock configured at...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered

Compatibility with databases managed on cloud - DBaaS

On the last deployment scenarios in which applications are deployed on cloud (on virtual servers or containers) it would be useful to be able to use DBaaS distributions such us DB2 on Cloud or Azure SQL. It is a backward step to have to use on-pre...

SEAS support for web proxy

Security has requested to enable the CRL check on file transfer service and the current network model does not allow any server to talk to internet directly without going through a proxy.

Requesting Automated method of running configCC for a "silent" configuration following silent install for multiple machines

When installing SCC/IBM Control Center 6.1.0.0 on RHEL, I noticed that while there is a "silent" installation option that will allow for more automation, there is no corresponding option for configuration. Running the exportConfig script gets you ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 4 Delivered