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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...
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...

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C:D 4.8: Add support for Windows 2016 core + clustered environment

At the moment, only Windows 2012 is supported in a core and/or clustered environment while more and more customers will do the move/upgrade to Windows 2016. In the actual context, the market tends to secure more and more their environments. By usi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Delivered

Enable PUBLIC_KEY Authentication for Inbound Push/Outbound Pull SSH-FTP Configuration

Since PUBLIC_KEY authentication is supported the PUBLIC_KEY option needs to be added to the Authentication Type for Inbound Push and Outbound Pull SSH-FTP. It is already available for Inbound Pull and Outbound Push.

Reporting Functionality for Rolled Out Activities

In order to succeed in Campaign Management this is a must have item. There needs to be a report with all partners who have activities rolled out to them with the current status. I have attached an example of what fields would need to be included, ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Delivered

Add RequestType UnprovisioningRequest for each protocol (Unprovisioning API)

There is no way to unprovision a setup in SFG from PEM currently. This is a common request from clients. Following the PEM architecture of the codelist integration with SFG there should be a "Delete" configuration which then initiates an unprovisi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Delivered

BNSF is requesting AAR & X12 EDI 7050 standards for Websphere Data Interchange translator. The standards will be available at Washington Publishing by the middle of April, 2018. BNSF is requesting IBM to provide the EDI 7050 version for the AAR and X12 standards no later than middle of July, 2018.

I need the 7050 version of the X12 and AAR standards for the EDI transactions 161, 404, 417, 418, 419, 420, 425, 427, 440, 824, and 998. The Rail industry is requesting all railroads to upgrade the named transactions to version 7050. Railinc has s...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 0 Delivered

Need to be able to patch B2Bi with an Oracle SSL connection

Once B2Bi is installed you can configure an Oracle SSL connection per these steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.sb2bi_install_upgrade_526.doc/_shared_files/SI_ConfigDataTraffEncySSL_Unix.html However in...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered

Write "** WARNING ** DMGMSGFH NO MESSAGE RPLS TO USE" to CDz Log Instead of only in CDESTAE DD

During recycle of CD, we noticed following warning message in CDESTAE. We consulted IBM CDz Support and were told we need to take a dump the instant that we see the message informing of the shortage. Could you please write a WTO message to the log...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Can Secure+ be made any simpler?

I spend a lot of time trying to figure out Secure+ screens. Is there any way they could add more help to PF1?
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Rest API to trigger a Business Process

Trigger a Business Process via API with 2 modes: 1- Synchronous : Wait for the Business Process Execution 2- Asynchronous: Trigger the BP and get a return code (BP started successfully)
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

In my retail company ABC, an associate can work in multiple stores on different days of week or re-assigned temporarily to work on different store. Apart from store associates, there are district managers (and admin users) who would need to see activities happening in all stores assigned to the district ( or all stores for admin users )

Use case -------------- In my retail company ABC, an associate can work in multiple stores on different days of week or re-assigned temporarily to work on different store. Apart from store associates, there are district managers (and admin use...
over 6 years ago in Store Engagement 4 Delivered