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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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Sharing search saved searches between users

When we create good search saved searches to filter out particular results. It would be very useful to share them between full team. For example saved searches for customer service
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

Show shipment destination on the Optimizer Results Explainer Dashboard map

Currently the map shown in the Results Explainer Order Summary screen shows a Star icon for the node(s) selected to ship and a Dot icon for nodes considered. If you click on the icon the name/number of the node appears in a popup box. It would be ...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Create API to list Node Relationships

There is no API available to show the Node relationship. There is an API (manageOrgRelantship) to create and manage Node Relationships. However, there is no equivalent list or detail API to show the relationship. Therefore a direct SQL call is req...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Fix manageNodeTransferSchedule API to create Node Relationship that does not exist

Currently, the manageNodeTransferSchedule API creates a relationship in one direction from Node A to Node B. However if a Node Transfer Schedule is created in the reverse direction (from Node B to Node A), the reverse Org relationship is not creat...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Threshold configuration for MFRA adapter

Sterling B2B introduced Total Business Process Queue Depth Threshold as part of 5.2.6.1, which helped to minimise overloading of Sterling ( internal queue) and thereby help achieve an overall better performance. Currently application through MFRA ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 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...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Addition of RSASSA-PSS signing algorithm to IBM Sterling Integrator B2B

This singing algorithm was requested by a partner that we trade EDI messages with. They provided us with their new AS2 OCES3 certificate, which used RSASSA-PSS as the signing algorithm. What resulted was that we were able to transmit file but we n...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Linux systemd IBM Control Center auto boot system unit file

Develop and test example IBM Control Center linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

The idea is to change the password encryption algorithm in the dark data service.

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about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration