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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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IBM Control Center - Not finding specific MSGID's

Need IBM Control Center to monitor the following MSG ID's SVTM026I - Session not establishedSVTM505I - Session Retry exceededSVTM105I - A process may be moved to HO HC Currently IBM Control Center is not getting recording these events and we need ...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Under review

Restarting a Carbon Copy Branch in InFlight

We work on a lot of Business scenarios for the SCBN Customers where the main document is carbon copied and sent for parallel processing. In this case, we would see a separate entry for the main branch and separate entries for the Carbon Copied bra...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Conditional Runtask/Runjob

We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Needs more information

Resynchronize Elastic data from Cassandra data for Archived orders

The successful archival of orders into Order Service results in their deletion from the OMS. In the event of a disaster or other unforeseen issue leading to Elastic data loss, the absence of these archived orders in OMS prevents their resynchroniz...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Decouple Order Service Dependency on Cassandra

Currently, Order Service relies on Cassandra for index data before triggering a search in Elastic. This dependency on Cassandra for search operations in Order Service can cause service disruptions during a Cassandra outage. Additionally, the time ...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Delayed Deletion of OMS Data on Archival of order into Order Service

As Order Service becomes the primary source of truth for orders, we have been evaluating disaster recovery strategies for Elastic and Cassandra services. One area of concern is potential data loss during OMS order archival into OS. Given Cassandra...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to create workflow based on the requester.

We have lots of different users of the tools with different roles and levels of authority. I would like to be able to create a workflow rule based on the requestor, so that, if that individual does not have the proper level of authority to make th...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Delete all button under Envelopes->Documents awaiting enveloping screen is only deleting the entries of a single page instead of deleting all entries at a time. Make sure this button deletes all entries after giving a confirmation pop up at a time while clicking on Delete All

The customer wants to delete all the OLD entries in a single shot but the existing Delete all button under Envelopes->Documents awaiting enveloping screen only deletes the entries of a single page.
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Need Corresponding Release of Vulnerabilities Fixed by Recently Released Patches/Fix Packs

There needs to be planned release(s) of known security vulnerabilities that are addressed in recent patches, i.e. 6.1.2.4 through regular channels (subscribed notifications). That seems to be how they've been released for IBM Sterling products in ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration