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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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Add equivalent of cdai_verifyUpgrade parameter

For silent install, users get a chance to set upgrade options (parameters). One of those is cdai_verifyUpgrade which enables/disables step that performs loopback transfer after upgrade to verify if upgrade was successful. If loopback transfer is n...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

COC Data Extract should send deleted records to the FTP to avoid orphaned records in target data warehouse.

When we remove and add new data thru API or internal code, the deleted records get removed and not propagated to the target system consuming the COC Data extract data published from OMS. This causes additional records to be retained in the target ...
almost 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Control logging of SSP CM monitoring messages

Messages are written to the auditlog.xml file (ACPT037I, ACPT040I and ACPT038I), as well as the sspengine.log file for the same activity. It is possible to reduce the frequency of these messages, but only to once every 10 minutes. It would be grea...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

IBM CoC Extract - Configure extract at different timing

IBM CoC Extract feature is used to extract data from below tables: a) DATAEXTR_INVITM b) DATAEXTR_RESERVS Would like to schedule extract for DATAEXTR_RESERVS table at 1 PM UTC and DATAEXTR_INVITM table extract at 8 PM UTC. As per IBM Support Team,...
almost 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Provide a way to deploy database changes such as adding a new field ahead of the full deployment.

Due to it taking an extra hour about for the DB entity updates and the required re-org activity a deployment that adds a new field takes longer than a normal deployment. Due to this want to be able to run it separately just like the on-prem versio...
almost 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future 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...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Ability to override the Node Transfer Schedule Data and use the external Transit days by enhancing the GetDeliveryLeadtimeUE

In ScheduleOrder API/Transaction we use GetDeliveryLeadtimeUE to pass the transit days. This Transit days are taken into availability date calculation only when Node Transfer schedule is not setup in the system. If the Node Transfer Schedule data ...
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Updating quantity boxes in configurator

Hi, Quantity boxes in new omni-configurator do not submit request when user hits enter. When user clicks somewhere else after entering quantities control comes back to same quantity field. It should go to place where user has clicked. Thanks, Sidd...
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Configure, Price, Quote 0 Future consideration

Connect:Direct with ability to connect to IBM Cloud Object Storage using API key and store files on COS

The request is mainly for providing capability in Connect:Direct for reading and writing files from IBM Cloud Object Storage and specifically by using API key while connecting to IBM COS from Connect:Direct.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration