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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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Sponsor Log-In With Company Details for Multiple Users

The Sponsor typically has more than one user who administrates activities. They would like to be represented as one unit, as opposed to individual members of the company. Currently each partner/partner user must be registered separately and with t...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Remove "Business Role" verbiage from trading partner profile field

In a trading partner profile there is a field entitled "Business Role / Title". The use of the term "role" gets confused with the user role capabilities elsewhere in the tool. "Business role" should be removed and just leave "Title".
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Replace Notify option with email option

Not really a new idea. I am just passing along details on how one can issue an email or text message from an NDM task using RUN TASK PNODE (PGM=IRXJCL) -
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need alert for Negative MDN

‰Û¢ There is no separate alert sent for negative MDN. It would be a non-translation error notification (confusing alerts as the same alert is sent for unrelated issue)
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Visibility to Customers on Inflight

Hello - With the new Inflight coming in, it was expected that the visibility to customers would be enhanced. For ex: If they just key in the file name or document reference number (PO, Invoice number, etc) - They get to pictorially see the file tr...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Provide manageItemNodeDefn API

The createItemNodeDefn call fails if the record already exists and using modifyItemNodeDefn will fail if the record doesn't exists. So when Sterling receives the safety stock details, we have to first make a getItemNodeDefn call & then invoke ...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

synchronize the versions of JRE in Connect Direct

Install agent is packaged with an older version of Java with numerous security vulnerabilities. Main java : $ ./jre/ibm-java-x86_64-80/jre/bin/java -version java version "1.8.0_261" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.6.15 - pxa6480sr6fp1...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Being able to monitor and get alerted for external services failures

External Services Monitoring Example: Alert if OMS not able to connect with Vertex Agent Trigger Failures Alert if Agent Job trigger failed/Failure
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Functionality already exists

Being able to get alerted based on log file monitoring

It would help to view data similar to Kibana Based Dashboards and get alerts based on Error Codes & Rate of Error Codes.
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 5 Not under consideration

MQ Monitoring

Ability to view contents of a Queue Number of messages/Queue Depth Oldest Message Ability to clear Bad data/Add for any Smoke test Receive Queue Depth Alerts (via pagerduty). Aging Messages Alerts Idle Time - No transactions in the queue in last o...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration