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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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WorkOrder Purge effeciency

Observation in workOrder purge agent. 1) Multiple getsJobs are getting triggered with EnterpriseCode. 2) yfs_task_queue table doesn't have EnterpriseCode column, which leads to pick unnecessary records for executeJob (multiple enterprise scenario)...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

To authenticate users/applications based on the Certificates rather than using userid and passwords

Currently, Any user trying to access NDM has to logon with userid and password either manually or via batch jobs. In order to avoid clear text passwords, Users can be authenticated based on certificates.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SEARCHUP() & SEARCHDOWN() functions should return all matched records, Instead of first match

Currently SEARCHUP() and SEARCHDOWN() functions return only single object. We need the functionality for these functions to return all matched records instead of one similar to how EXTRACT() function returns data. Using EXTRACT() on large data set...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

IP + User_Id whitelisting

SSP supports IP or User_Id whitelisting only but not a combo ( IP + User_id). We need to ability to whitelist IPs for a given User_id. This way, if a rouge employee left the firm but carries the user_id credential, he can't login from other locati...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Store user authorization and store assignment consideration in IdP

We've come across multiple retail engagements where IdP system e.g. LDAP system takes care of user authentication and also maintains the user group assignment. With OMS CoC enabled in IBM ID, it's mandatory to first create a user in OMS with the m...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

APIClient business process can pull and place file on Sterling filegateway mailbox path option too along with file system mailbox path

APIClient business process can pull and place file on Sterling filegateway mailbox path option too along with file system mailbox path
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Ability to consider the unsegmented inventory also as a secondary option to fulfill orders or demands for custom segment types.

When doing inventory allocation based on segmentation, OMS should consider the unsegmented inventory also as a secondary option to fulfill orders or demands for custom segment types. This feature currently exists in v10. But is needed for v9.5 for...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Order Status changes to be audited

when order line status is changed by schedule order/release order or any other API's, status change is not getting audited in the order audit tables. Request to get this feature added
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

Full inventory snapshot for all the items across all nodes

Required a rest API or evnent to publish Full inventory snapshot for all the items across all nodes in IV phase 2
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists