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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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Transaction reports

We have upgrading the Partner Manger to ITXA and Presently in the Trading manager we have option to see the transaction report( see attached transaction report for details) we are looking not exact similar functionality but want to check if their ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Future consideration

"HALT_ON_MATCH_TRANS_ERROR" should be exposed in the config center UI

Currently, the files are not failing in any CERROR logic implemented in the DocExtraction map.We recently saw the scenario that if we were getting an empty receiver ID from doc-extract map, then it would fail with envelope not found.But one of the...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Authenticate OMS users without having to preload the user base

Many clients of OMS do not maintain a user repository system that can send user load to OMS. Users will be present on the client's active directory and will can be authenticated and created in OMS during the authentication.
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Create a separate jdbc pool for opscmd

Issue: Customer noticed that SBI's opscmd.sh script duplicates the creation of every connection pools from SBI to the Database. Root Cause Analysis: When queueDepth command (using opscmd script) is invoked, it creates another copy of connection po...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Future consideration

Have the ability to export an entire secret PGP keypair within B2Bi

As discussed with support in TS011052588 - it is not possible to export a secret keypair that has been imported/generated with Native PGP, into a format that can then be imported to use with other PGP software. When you export a secret key via the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Let Control Center have the ability to monitor critical database system events on a monitored SI server

Today, if a B2BI node looses its connection to the database server, it sends out an email. I would like Control Center to have the ability to detect if that event has occurred and send out an alert.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

Support for tag controlled inventory in Store/SIM

There are products that are unique to batch, lot, manufacture date, and other attributes that require tagged inventory control to identify a specific or subset of a product. For example, products like granite/stone slab countertops each have a uni...
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Node level safety stock values considered when calculating Network level SS

This feature would allow retailers who already define safety stock at node level to more easily leverage the new IBM safety stock rules because the values they set at node level can automatically be considered to create a network level value
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

sftp client list service should have configurable parameter to list the number of files.

In certain customer sites, The file count that need to be picked up using sftp client services range from 1 to 100,000 from partner's sftp server. When we use the sftp client list service to list the files (when the file count is at max range) the...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration