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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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System rejected materials due to refresh to the original settings from the initial submission

Materials that are not approved before the MRO IO system refresh, either Delta or monthly, are rejected and returned to the Items list in MRO IO in the base state that they were originally in prior to review by planners or maintenance personnel. T...
about 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

publicly accessible system status page

Availability of a publicly accessible system status pages to provide transparency around service availability and performance for the SCBN products or other IBM products.
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Implement SelectMethod attribute for all OMS ListAPI

Suggest to include the SelectMethod handling as the standard attribute for all List APIs.
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

CDWS - login for protocol wording

The label for selecting the connection information currently listed as 'Protocol' should be changed to something more descriptive such as “Cipher Protocol” and instead of defaulting to “TCPIP” it should say “NONE”. Having “TCPIP” in there is just ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Need alerts

IT will help to monitor system
over 6 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

Click to show Password

Within the out of the box onboarding activities the password is display in plain text. Instead, there could be text that says "Click to show password" and when clicked, the password is un-hidden.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Planned for future release

view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document

In EDI Correlation, view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document. If the partner partially accepts or rejects outbound document, it would be useful to easily view the partner's inbound acknowledgment for the outbound document.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Ability to generate/expose OpenAPI specifications for OMS APIs

This idea if implemented can be used by developers, ISVs and clients to refer to API documentation, usage and testing purposes to expedite development and testing purposes. Some of the applications used for system/ application integration like IBM...
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

CIphers configuration for Connect Direct Web Services

Connect Direct Web Services configuration should allow to limit list of allowed ciphers. Similar functionality is present for protocol configuration under "server.ssl.enabled-protocols”. Support for similar parameter e.g. "server.ssl.enabled-ciphe...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

JMS parameters in Inflight Delivery Event Details

When the files are delivered to JMS MQ at we are able see only the JMS queue in the Inflight Event details. It would be really helpful if other JMS parameter(SenderNonEDIID, ReceiverNonEDIID & DestinationProtocolSubject) also also being captur...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration