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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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Password Security Controls

Password security controls for SEAS administrator interfaces using local authentication are not sufficient. Minimum password length of eight characters can’t be enforced. Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings ar...
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server 1 Not under consideration

Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling External Authentication Server do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that en...
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Inactivity Session Timeout Controls - Administrator Accounts

The administrative consoles for the Sterling Secure Proxy do not contain inactivity session timeout settings. This is not in compliance with our security procedures that require implementation of automatic system timeouts that end user sessions af...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Sterling Inflight - Map Translation Output File

I am requesting an enhancement to the IBM Sterling Inflight map failure information that is currently provided. We receive the failure information the same as we would get from IBM B2B Sterling Integrator. However, we do not get to see the resulti...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Manager delegation enhancement

Manager delegation for approvals currently works if the delegate is on the same team as the manger. It does not work however is the team of the person doing the delegation contains another person having the same role. Eg. Tim - Sales Manager - Tea...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Configure, Price, Quote 0 Future consideration

Delivery charge should be refunded for carry orders with non pre-paid tenders

The business requirement is to support order level promotional discounts(which applies to the whole basket) for Carry orders. For Carry order with non pre-paid tender (not pre-settled) and having header charges as promotions passed in the create o...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Retrofit the Enhancement Request CONDIRECTZ-I-8 "Provide control over who can use the SNODEID parameter" to CD v6.1

This idea CONDIRECTZ-I-8 "Provide control over who can use the SNODEID parameter" was previously raised for CDz CONDIRECTZ-I-8, and it was informed that it would be available in v6.1. However, after the upgrade to V6.1, it was informed that this e...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Gentran running on Windows 2019 Data Center, sorts documents by MM/DD/YYYY

Gentran running on Windows 2019 Data Center, sorts documents by:MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS It should sort as: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS In Windows 2008 R2, it used to sort as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
over 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

ITXA support Bulk Update Codelist API without Version Number

Implementation-Version: 9.0.0.8(17)Build-Date: 20181003.0829 Case Number: TS001467199 Note: We are referring here Bulk Update Codelist API . Not the Update Codelist API We want to use the API from Sterling Business process The below...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 3 Not under consideration

Enhanced Imputed Weight Logic

Enhance imputed weight logic in Optimizer to account for product hierarchies that are not consistent in weight / dimension classifications. Example: Department ABC | Personal Care - includes assortment from toothbrush to air conditioners. Pro...
over 5 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Product Functionality 0 Not under consideration