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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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Processes which are NOT OK should remain in TCQ

In most situations, where a process ends not OK, it is moved from TCQ to statistics, i. e. LSMG244I. Finding the original //SYSIN of the batchjob for repeating is difficult and time consuming. There should be a mechanism (exit, initparm, ...) to i...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow Pallet Receiving

The application currently supports receiving at the shipment level and container level, only leaving out pallet. The reason is not clear. Receiving should be allowed at all levels.
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. A sample message can be provided if needed. Can the nex...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

WorkOrder Purge effeciency

Observation in workOrder purge agent. 1) Multiple getsJobs are getting triggered with EnterpriseCode. 2) yfs_task_queue table doesn't have EnterpriseCode column, which leads to pick unnecessary records for executeJob (multiple enterprise scenario)...
about 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

To authenticate users/applications based on the Certificates rather than using userid and passwords

Currently, Any user trying to access NDM has to logon with userid and password either manually or via batch jobs. In order to avoid clear text passwords, Users can be authenticated based on certificates.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SEARCHUP() & SEARCHDOWN() functions should return all matched records, Instead of first match

Currently SEARCHUP() and SEARCHDOWN() functions return only single object. We need the functionality for these functions to return all matched records instead of one similar to how EXTRACT() function returns data. Using EXTRACT() on large data set...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Partner Level Authentication

We are starting to see more and more customers want to move to SSH Key only auth, however, we are not set to that today, nor are all of our customers ready/willing to make that switch. Since the authentication requirement is set at a system level,...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

IP + User_Id whitelisting

SSP supports IP or User_Id whitelisting only but not a combo ( IP + User_id). We need to ability to whitelist IPs for a given User_id. This way, if a rouge employee left the firm but carries the user_id credential, he can't login from other locati...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Store user authorization and store assignment consideration in IdP

We've come across multiple retail engagements where IdP system e.g. LDAP system takes care of user authentication and also maintains the user group assignment. With OMS CoC enabled in IBM ID, it's mandatory to first create a user in OMS with the m...
about 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

EBICS Server to permit both RSA and X.509 so clients can connect to the same bank profile

EBICS Server to permit both RSA and X.509 so clients can connect to the same bank profile which is configured with an X.509 certificate as this will simplify and reduce the impact of migrations for existing RSA clients to R3
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Under review